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Eddy
Asked: 2011-02-02 13:30:30 +0800 CST

Workstation discovery

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Is there any way to find all the workstation on the Active directory "win 2003".

without being the Domain admin?

windows-server-2003 active-directory

3 Answers

  1. WinXP and up have you covered:

    dsquery computer -limit 10000

    That'll give you a list of all of the computer-objects in the AD tree. dsquery allows fancier filtering as well if you need it. A useful tool!

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  2. If you are a user on the network you can use AD Explorer this should allow you to READ AD but it is possible you will receive an error....

    If you need a list of machines on the network i would suggest that you ask an administrator as this may break your company policy and could depending how strict the network is lose you your job...

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  3. PowerShell can do this with one line (not sure if this works on 2003 domain though):

    Get-ADComputer -Filter 'operatingSystem -notlike "*server*"' | FT name

    You may need to import the activedirectory module first. So your first line in the powershell window might need to be:

    import-module act*
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