Windows 2003

Using Windows PowerShell to list domain controllers in each of the domains with an ADS forest

If ever you need to get the list all of the domain controllers within a forest you can use powershell to do it for you and write it to a file.

Note, of course your computer must Windows Powershell installed for this to work!

Here is how:

Create a new file with the following code on your computers file system. I am calling mine getDC.ps1 and i am saving it under c:\scripts

Introduction

Windows 2003 ADS is as you probably already know is based upon LDAP. Often you will need to query this ldap directory for authentication and other purposes. By default these queries are carried out unencrypted and can be snooped by eavesdroppers. To remedy this you can enable ldap over SSL to allow LDAP queries to be done over encrypted channel.

This guide tells you how to do this. For the purposes of the guide we only have one domain controller called "mypdc" which runs the ADS called "mytest.domain.com". Of course this will change according to your own setup.