How to find computer object OU from server itself using CMD

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Fenomatik picture Fenomatik · Mar 17, 2016 · Viewed 26.6k times · Source

How can I find what OU the computer belongs to using CMD or powershell cmdlet . I have found some long scripts but there has to be a one liner command for it. The computers dont have AD role installed on them so DSQUERY is out of equation. CMD or powershell cmdlet would work.

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TheMadTechnician picture TheMadTechnician · Mar 17, 2016

A one-liner for PowerShell without AD Role would be:

([adsisearcher]"(&(name=$env:computername)(objectClass=computer))").findall().path

That would give you a string like:

LDAP://CN=MyComputer,OU=Workstations,OU=Machines,DC=TacoTruck,DC=com

That would work on the local computer. If you want to run against a remote server on the same domain replace $env:computername with the name of the computer.

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