Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

AD management commands and scripts

The module has 147 commands, and they can be used in countless different ways to manage the AD environment. In this section, we will look at the capabilities of these commands and see how we can use them to improve AD management.

I'd like to start this section by explaining how we can review the existing configuration of an AD environment. The quick way to review the directory server configuration and capabilities is to use the following command:

Get-ADRootDSE

This command provides important information, such as forest and domain functional levels, the default naming context, the current time, and the currently logged-in domain controller:

The next step is to find the domain controllers in the domain. We ...