Finding Domain Controllers and Global Catalogs with DNS,Determining Whether Global Catalog Promotion Is Complete,Finding the Domain Controllers or Global Catalog Servers in a Site

Determining Whether Global Catalog Promotion Is Complete

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to determine whether global catalog promotion is complete. When you perform this task, you promote a specified domain controller to act as a global catalog domain controller for a domain.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to determine whether global catalog promotion is complete for the server Fabrikam-DC1:
Get-ADRootDSE -Server Fabrikam-DC1 | FT GlobalCatalogReady

Additional information

For a full explanation of the parameters that you can pass to Get-ADRootDSE, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Get-ADRootDSE –detailed, and then press ENTER.

Finding the Domain Controllers or Global Catalog Servers in a Site

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to find the domain controllers or global catalog servers in a site.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to find the global catalog servers in a forest:
Get-ADDomainController -Filter {Site -eq 'Default-First-Site-Name'} | FT Name,IsGlobalCatalog

Additional information

For a full explanation of the parameters you can pass to Get-ADDomainController, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Get-ADDomainController –detailed, and then press ENTER.

Finding Domain Controllers and Global Catalogs with DNS

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to find the domain controllers or global catalog servers by using Domain Name System (DNS).

Example

The following example demonstrates how to find the global catalog servers in a forest by using DNS:
Get-ADDomainController -Discover [-AvoidSelf] [-Writable] [-DomainName <String>] [-ForceDiscover] [-NextClosestSite] [-Service <ADDiscoverableService[]>] [-MinimumDirectoryServiceVersion <ADMinimumDirectoryServiceVersion>] [-SiteName <String>]

Additional information

For a full explanation of the parameters that you can pass to Get-ADDomainController, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Get-ADDomainController –detailed, and then press ENTER.