Documenting Domain Controller Information

By Alan Finn, February 13th, 2005 Posted in Windows Scripting. Subscribe to our RSS Feed

Documentation is definitely one of the more tedious tasks of system administration. Documents relating to domain controller information used to be rather static; however, with the advent of new functionality in Windows 2003 such as the ability to rename domain controllers and domains themselves, even these documents have become a dynamically changing part of document maintenance.

To save time and eliminate possible errors related to documenting this information, I wrote a VBScript that will query domain controllers throughout the forest and enumerate name, IP address, GC functionality, OS version, and SP version. This information is formatted into an Excel spreadsheet and automatically places information related to different domains in the forest into a different worksheet within the workbook. The script queries the forest using RootDSE and dynamically enumerates forest and domain information without changing static variables in the script. In a nutshell; you don’t have to continuously change the code to work within different forests.

Obviously, Excel needs to be installed on the workstation where the script is run and you will need administrative privileges on the DC’s to enumerate all the information as WMI will use the credentials of the currently logged in user. The output file is placed at the root of C:\.

To run the script you can either double click on the script or run it from the command line using cscript. Click here to obtain this script in TXT format (be sure to save it with a VBS extension to use it).

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