Appendix B. Admin examples
Although this book is not intended to be a solutions cookbook, it’s always handy to have a few domain-specific examples. This section contains a number of short examples showing how common administration tasks might be accomplished with PowerShell.
Getting active directory domain information
The following script will list the active directory information for a list of computers. If no computer names are provided, it shows the domain information for this computer. You can optionally specify a set of properties to return.
To display the domain information for the current host:
Get-DomainInfo
or
Get-DomainInfo .
To display the domain information for a set of machines:
Get-DomainInfo machine1, machine2, machine3
To get the domain ...
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