PoshTip #41 – How To Get AD Forest and AD Domain Functional Level?

This blog post explains how to get the Domain and Forest level of your Active Directory using Windows PowerShell.

There are 2 cmdlets:

• Get-ADDomain
• Get-ADForest

You can filter the results with Name and Domain/Forest Mode parameters:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-ADDomain | fl Name,DomainMode


Name       : get-cmd
DomainMode : Windows2016Domain



PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-ADForest | fl Name,ForestMode


Name       : get-cmd.Local
ForestMode : Windows2016Forest

 

 

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