a quick way of exporting an inventory of all the Windows Servers that reside within an AD environment.
PowerShell to the rescue!
Requirements for using PowerShell AD Module related cmdlets:
- Windows 7 and onward with RSAT Tools Installed
- Windows Server 2008 R2 and onward with RSAT Tools Installed or AD Domain Services Installed with its Management Tools
The following One-Liner will return a list of all the Computer objects running Windows Server OS within an AD environment.
Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -like "windowsserver*"} -Properties * | sort DNSHostname | ft DNSHostName, OperatingSystem -Wrap -Auto
In case you need to export the resulted inventory to a file you just need to alter a bit the one-liner.
Get-ADComputer -Filter {OperatingSystem -like "windowsserver*"} -Properties * | sort DNSHostname | select DNSHostName, OperatingSystem | Export-Csv -Path "$home\Desktop\ADServers.csv"
