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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Testing an AD installation

In Installing an AD forest root domain, you installed AD on DC1. In that recipe, you installed AD (without rebooting) and tested certain services. After the required reboot (which you completed at the end of the previous recipe), it is useful to check to ensure that your domain is fully up and running and working correctly. In this recipe, you examine core aspects of the AD infrastructure on your first DC.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on DC1, the first domain controller in the Reskit.Org domain, after you have promoted it to be a DC. You created DC1 as a domain controller in the Reskit.Org domain in Installing an AD forest root domain. Log on as Reskit\Administrator.

How to do it...

  1. Examining AD root directory service entry (DSE)
    Get-ADRootDSE -Server DC1.Reskit.Org
    
  2. Viewing AD forest details
    Get-ADForest
    
  3. Viewing AD domain details ...
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