Active Directory Cookbook

17.5. Finding the Application Partitions Hosted by a Server

Problem

You want to find the application partitions that a particular server replicates. Before you decommission a server, it is good to check to see if it hosts any application partitions and if so, add another replica server to replace it.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

1. Open LDP.

2. From the menu, select Connection → Connect.

3. For Server, enter the name of a DC.

4. For Port, enter 389.

5. Click OK.

6. From the menu, select Connection → Bind.

7. Enter a user and password with the necessary credentials.

8. Click OK.

9. From the menu, select Browse → Search.

10. For BaseDN, type the DN of the Partitions container (e.g., cn=partitions,cn=configuration,dc=rallencorp, dc=com).

11. For Filter, enter:

    (&(objectcategory=crossRef)(systemFlags:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=5)
    (msDS-NC-Replica-Locations=cn=NTDS Settings,cn=<DomainControllerName>,
    cn=servers,cn=<
                            SiteName
                            >,cn=sites, cn=configuration,<
                            ForestDN
                            >))

12. For Scope, select One Level.

13. Click the Options button.

14. For Attributes, type dnsRoot.

15. Click OK.

16. Click Run.

Using a command-line interface

Use the following command to find all of the application partitions hosted by a domain controller. To run this command, you need the distinguished name of the forest root domain (<ForestDN>), the common name of the DC’s server object (<DomainControllerName>), and the common name of the site object the server is in (<SiteName>).

> dsquery * "cn=partitions,cn=configuration,<ForestDN>" -scope onelevel -attr[RETURN] dnsRoot -filter "(&(objectcategory=crossRef)(systemFlags:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=5) ...