{"id":80,"date":"2015-01-06T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/06\/powertip-use-powershell-to-get-all-computer-names\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:08","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-get-all-computer-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-get-all-computer-names\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Get All Computer Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to easily retrieve a list of all computer names on the network.<\/span><\/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 Windows PowerShell to obtain a list of all the servers on the network so I can run a <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;script against them without typing a bunch of names?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-ADComputer<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet from the Active Directory module <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(available via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/Search\/result.aspx?form=MSHOME&amp;mkt=en-us&amp;setlang=en-us&amp;q=RSAT\" target=\"_blank\">Remote Server Administration Tools<\/a>), for example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">(Get-ADComputer -Filter *).name<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to easily retrieve a list of all computer names on the network. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to obtain a list of all the servers on the network so I can run a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;script against them without typing a bunch of names? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ADComputer&nbsp;cmdlet from [&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-80","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: Use Windows PowerShell to easily retrieve a list of all computer names on the network. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to obtain a list of all the servers on the network so I can run a &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;script against them without typing a bunch of names? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ADComputer&nbsp;cmdlet from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/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=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}