Active Directory Administration Cookbook

Using Active Directory Users and Computers to inventory domain controllers

Active Directory Users and Computers allows for querying the entire Active Directory domain for either Writable Domain Controllers and Read-only Domain Controllers in the following way:

1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers, (dsa.msc).
2. In the left navigation pane, right-click the target domain name for which you want to inventory the domain controllers.
3. Select Find.
4. In the Find drop-down box, select Computers.
5. In the Role drop-down box, select Writable Domain Controllers or Read-Only Domain Controllers.
6. Click Find Now.

The list of domain controllers for the domain is now shown in the search results pane.