Monday, December 17, 2012

How to find Primary Domain Controller


If you have a environment with a lot of Domain Controller’s are just want to know which one is the primary…
You can run the below command to find who’s the primary dc

C:\nltest /dclist:Noor.com                     Where Noor.com is your domain.
This command will list all DC’s in a environment and accent the Primary DC with [PDC] as well as other DCs...............,
The below command will list only the primary domain controller for the domain you list after dcname:

C:\nltest /dcname:Noor.com
Alternatively from GUI, we can find PDC by doing this:

1.      Open AD users and computers,

2.      Right click on Noor.com

3.      Click on Operations Masters

4.      Now click on PDC tab......................That’s it.