{"id":1966,"date":"2014-12-06T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2014-12-06T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:11:15","slug":"get-adrootdse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/get-adrootdse\/","title":{"rendered":"Get-ADRootDSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a note to myself. A quick way to find the domain functional level as well as other details is the <code>Get-ADRootDSE<\/code> cmdlet. By default it connects to the DC you are on (or authenticated with if you are running it from a client) but you can specify a different server via the <code>-Server &lt;servername&gt;<\/code> switch.<\/p>\n<p>Example default output:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true \">PS&gt; Get-ADRootDSE\r\n\r\n\r\nconfigurationNamingContext    : CN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\ncurrentTime                   : 06\/12\/2014 20:07:38\r\ndefaultNamingContext          : DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\ndnsHostName                   : WIN-DC01.rakhesh.local\r\ndomainControllerFunctionality : Windows2012R2\r\ndomainFunctionality           : Windows2008Domain\r\n&lt;snip&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>Example stuff you can do with it:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\"># find all the NC locations\r\nPS&gt; Get-ADRootDSE | select *Naming*\r\n\r\n\r\nconfigurationNamingContext : CN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\ndefaultNamingContext       : DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nnamingContexts             : {DC=rakhesh,DC=local, CN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local,\r\n                             CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local, DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=rakhesh,DC=local...}\r\nrootDomainNamingContext    : DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nschemaNamingContext        : CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\n\r\n# find Application NCs hosted on the server you are connected to\r\nPS&gt; Get-ADRootDSE | select *Naming* -ExpandProperty namingContexts\r\nDC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nCN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nCN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nDC=DomainDnsZones,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nDC=ForestDnsZones,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\nDC=SomeApp2,DC=rakhesh,DC=local\r\n\r\n# find highest committed USN on that server\r\nPS&gt; (Get-ADRootDSE -Server WIN-DC03).highestCommittedUSN<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a note to myself. A quick way to find the domain functional level as well as other details is the Get-ADRootDSE cmdlet. By default it connects to the DC you are on (or authenticated with if you are running it from a client) but you can specify a different server via the -Server &lt;servername&gt; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/windows\/get-adrootdse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get-ADRootDSE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[333,85],"tags":[4,368],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}