How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

Rishabh — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:44:43 GMT

Is there a way to find computers that are currently logged in to your domain?

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

likewise — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:27:49 GMT

Would you provide an example of getting computer list from another domain?

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

JV — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:55:47 GMT

([adsisearcher]'(&(objectCategory=computer)(!operatingSystem=*server*))').FindAll()

You should post all quesrions here: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../ITCG

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

Rudi Thilo — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:06:53 GMT

Hi.

Thanks a lot for that really cool one-liner!!

To get this work more global, I'd like to distinguish WORKSTATIONs from SERVERs. Using google, I could find, that the computer.primarygroupid for DOMAINCONTROLLERS is 516, for all other computers (SERVER + WS) it's 515.

Any other trick to tell, if the COMPUTER is running a SERVER-OS, beside investigating "computer.operatingSystem" ?

Thanks, Rudi.

(for my syntax questions I'll post separately)

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

JV — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:21:22 GMT

@Rudi

That is too easy ->

([adsisearcher]'objectCategory=computer').FindAll() |

?{$_.Properties['name'] -notlike $env:computername} |

%{stop-computer $_.Properties['name'] -whatif}

One line - No muss! No fuss!

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

Rudi Thilo — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:54:21 GMT

Howto use this to shutdown all *WORKSTATIONS* computers in the domain?

This will give me all *computers* (including *SERVERS*) in the domain except that one, the script is running on (the PDC):

foreach ($objResult in $colResults){$objComputer = $objResult.Properties; $objComputer.name|where {$objcomputer.name -ne $env:computername}}

changing the final "}}" to something like "}|stop-computer -comp $objcomputer.name}" doesn't work. :-(

Regards, Rudi.

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

@COMMANDER — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:58:19 GMT

It's net view /domain :p

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

COMMANDER — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:52:32 GMT

You can just type in new view/ domain in CMD prompt. And it'll list them LOL

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

Phil — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:57:50 GMT

It would be nice to sort the output by name.

re: How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Get a List of All My Computers?

Justin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:46:26 GMT

GD:

you can do this get-member -i $objComputer

this will display the members of that object. the thing to keep in mind is how it handles collections. you can do it two different ways, as i've shown above, which if run against a collection, will show the members of the collection class, if you run it like this

$objComputer | get-member

it will return the members of the object in the collection , basically the same as doing this

get-member -i $objComputer[0]

Confuddled:

thats an easy one, use sort :)

$objCollection | sort <property name>

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