Get current computer's distinguished name in powershell without using the ActiveDirectory module
active-directory, powershell
Solution
Try this (requires v2):
$filter = "(&(objectCategory=computer)(objectClass=computer)(cn=$env:COMPUTERNAME))"
([adsisearcher]$filter).FindOne().Properties.distinguishedname
Problem
I have a script that I need to find the full Distinguished name (`CN=MyComputer, OU=Computers, DC=vw, DC=local`) of the computer it is running on, however I can not guarantee that the `ActiveDirectory` module will be available on all computers that this script will be run on. Is there a way to get the current computer's full Distinguished name without using `Get-ADComputer $Env:COMPUTERNAME`? Just in case this is a XY problem, what I am trying to do is move the computer to a specific OU, but I need a way to get the ASDI entry for the computer I am running on. ``` [ADSI]$computer = ("LDAP://" + $localDN) if($Production) { [ADSI]$destination = 'LDAP://ou=Production,ou=Computers,ou=VetWeb,dc=vw,dc=local' $computer.MoveTo($destination); } else { [ADSI]$destination = 'LDAP://ou=Test,ou=Computers,ou=VetWeb,dc=vw,dc=local' $computer.MoveTo($destination); } ```