Find the Fully Qualified Domain Name of Current Active Directory Domain
So I'm making the move to PowerShell. It's painful learning such alien (to me) concepts but books like Lee Holmes' PowerShell: The Definitive Guide help a ton. I was fortunate enough to be the editor for Chapters 1-5 and got a sneak preview. It's a fantastic book and can't wait to receive the title, complete with indexes! For now, I'm searching both the 36 Word documents and the sample code for solutions using Vista's built-in search functions. My first task, which I'll explain in later posts, includes some AD stuff. One tiny part of the equation is dynamically finding the FQDN of the current Active Directory domain. This should be easy! Using RootDSE, it's super easy to find out the DistinguishedName or even the FQDN of the domain controller being queried, so wouldn't there be a similar entry for FQDN of the whole domain? Apparently not (or if it's there, I can't find it). I've spent the morning and part of last night digging through...