{"id":3976,"date":"2013-03-23T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2013\/03\/23\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-domain-naming-context\/"},"modified":"2013-03-23T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-find-domain-naming-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-find-domain-naming-context\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Find Domain Naming Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily find the naming contexts for your AD DS domain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to find information about my naming contexts for Active Directory Domain Services (AD&nbsp;DS)?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>Use&nbsp;<strong>Get-ADRootDSE<\/strong>&nbsp;from the Active Directory module, pipe the results to the&nbsp;<strong>Select-Object<\/strong>&nbsp;cmdlet, and use a wildcard pattern to select *naming*.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px\">Get-ADRootDSE | select *naming*&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily find the naming contexts for your AD DS domain. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to find information about my naming contexts for Active Directory Domain Services (AD&nbsp;DS)?&nbsp; Use&nbsp;Get-ADRootDSE&nbsp;from the Active Directory module, pipe the results to the&nbsp;Select-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, and use a wildcard pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to easily find the naming contexts for your AD DS domain. &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to find information about my naming contexts for Active Directory Domain Services (AD&nbsp;DS)?&nbsp; Use&nbsp;Get-ADRootDSE&nbsp;from the Active Directory module, pipe the results to the&nbsp;Select-Object&nbsp;cmdlet, and use a wildcard pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}