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Get All DCs in the Entire Forest

March 6, 2019 by mo wasay

Getting a know a new environment for a new client and I a quickly needed information about all domain controllers in the entire forest. Wrote a small little script to provide me all the information I needed:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

function Get-AllDCsInForest{
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
    [string]$ReferenceDomain = $env:USERDOMAIN
)
 
$ForestObj = Get-ADForest -Server $ReferenceDomain
foreach($Domain in $ForestObj.Domains) {
    Get-ADDomainController -Filter * -Server $Domain | select Domain,HostName,Site, IPv4Address, OperatingSystem, OperatingSystemVersion
     
}
 
}

Get-AllDCsInForest| Export-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\AllDcs.txt -NoTypeInformation

Import-Module ActiveDirectory

function Get-AllDCsInForest{

[CmdletBinding()]

param(

[string]$ReferenceDomain = $env:USERDOMAIN

)

$ForestObj = Get-ADForest -Server $ReferenceDomain

foreach($Domain in $ForestObj.Domains) {

Get-ADDomainController -Filter * -Server $Domain | select Domain,HostName,Site, IPv4Address, OperatingSystem, OperatingSystemVersion

}

Get-AllDCsInForest| Export-Csv -Path C:\Scripts\AllDcs.txt -NoTypeInformation

Speed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites

August 8, 2017 by mo wasay

Using the standard GUI Microsoft Management Consoles toÂ makeÂ the change toÂ speed up Active DirectoryÂ replicationÂ is not possible. The best result of usingÂ administratorÂ consoles will be toÂ increase domainÂ replicationÂ between domainÂ controllersÂ to 15 minutes.Â TheseÂ large time values were instituted into Active Directory at version 1 becauseÂ inter-siteÂ connectionsÂ during that era of computing and networking were muchÂ lower in bandwidth with the most common being frame-relay or … Read moreSpeed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites