How to user DsQuery
To find all the domain controllers in the forest with DN and RDN:
- DsQuery Server -o rdn -Forest
- DsQuery Server -Forest
To find all the domain controllers in a domain:
- DsQuery Server -domain domain_name.com
To list all the domain controllers in a domain that are also Global Catalog Servers:
- DsQuery Server -domain domain_name.com -isgc
To list the domain controller in the forest that holds the Schema FSMO:
- DsQuery Server -Forest -hasfsmo schema
Note: Use the “>” to store the output to a text file. The below command will store all the domain controller names in AllDCs.txt.
- DsQuery Server -Forest > AllDCs.txt
