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

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 Save the file with this code in it. Now open power shell and run the file you just saved. In my case I will type c:\myscripts\getDC.ps1 This should then create a file called mydcs.txt under c:\myscripts. Open it up and you should see a nice little list of sites and domain controllers.