Finding the Global Catalog Servers in a Forest,,Moving a Domain Controller to a Different Site,Enabling and Disabling the Global Catalog

Finding the Global Catalog Servers in a Forest

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

Example

The following example demonstrates how to find the global catalog servers in the Fabrikam forest:
Get-ADForest Fabrikam.com | FL GlobalCatalogs

Additional information

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

Moving a Domain Controller to a Different Site

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to move a domain controller to a different site in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Example

The following example demonstrates how to move the domain controller Fabrikam-DC2 to the site HQ in the Fabrikam.com domain:
Move-ADDirectoryServer -Identity Fabrikam-DC2 -Site "CN=HQ,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=FABRIKAM,DC=COM"

Additional information

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

Enabling and Disabling the Global Catalog

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to enable or disable the global catalog in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Example

The following example demonstrates how to enable the global catalog in the Fabrikam.com domain:
Set-ADObject "CN=NTDS Settings,CN=Fabrikam-DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=Fabrikam,DC=COM" -Replace@{options='1'}
To disable the global catalog, replace the value 1 with 0.

Additional information

You can use the following parameters when you set many of the common values of Active Directory objects:

• -Description
  
• -DisplayName
  
• -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion
  

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