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PowerShell Code: Find User in Active Directory Forest<\/p>\n
There are times when you have a userid, but don’t know where in a multi-domain forest a user is located. Here’s some PowerShell code for locating the user’s domain.
\nPowerShell code leverages the Active Directory PowerShell module to query a local Global Catalog (GC) server in order to identify the user’s domain.<\/p>\n
import-module activedirectory<\/p>\n $LocalSite = (Get-ADDomainController -Discover).Site Write-Output “Identify User and Computer Objects with configured Service Principal Names `r ” Get-ADUser -Server $LocalGC -filter { sAMAccountName -eq $UserID }<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PowerShell Code: Find User in Active Directory Forest There are times when you have a userid, but don’t know where in a multi-domain forest a user is located. Here’s some PowerShell code for locating the user’s domain. PowerShell code leverages the Active Directory PowerShell module to query a local Global Catalog (GC) server in … <\/p>\n
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\n$UserID
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\n$NewTargetGC = Get-ADDomainController -Discover -Service 6 -SiteName $LocalSite
\nIF (!$NewTargetGC)
\n{ $NewTargetGC = Get-ADDomainController -Discover -Service 6 -NextClosestSite }
\n$NewTargetGCHostName = $NewTargetGC.HostName
\n$LocalGC = “$NewTargetGCHostName” + “:3268”<\/p>\n
\nGet-ADUser $UserID -Server “$LocalGC”<\/p>\n