How to switch to another domain and get-aduser

powershell active-directory cross-domain
Axiom picture Axiom · Dec 17, 2014 · Viewed 160.8k times · Source

I am on a server under the DomainA. I can use Get-ADUser and it's working fine.

Now there is a trust built between DomainA and DomainB. I would like to switch to DomainB and get all the users that's in OU=New Users, DC=DomainB, DC=com.

I tried these but I get an error.

$FetchDomainB = Get-ADUser -SearchBase "OU=New Users, DC=DomainB, DC=com"

This asks me for Filter and i put in emailadress then it throws an error saying "Supplied distinguished name below to dc=DomainA,dc=net"

Same error is thrown for following code as well.

PS C:\> $test = Get-ADUser -SearchBase "dc=DomainB,dc=com" -filter {EmailAddress -like "*Smith_Karla*"} -Properties EmailAddress

Answer

Frode F. picture Frode F. · Dec 17, 2014

Try specifying a DC in DomainB using the -Server property. Ex:

Get-ADUser -Server "dc01.DomainB.local" -Filter {EmailAddress -like "*Smith_Karla*"} -Properties EmailAddress

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