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Hi everyone,<br />
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Id like to ask you kind People if there is a scripted way to query AD to determine what domain controllers are NOT global catalogs?<br />
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Is there also a way to then via script, make those domain controllers found, global catalogs?<br />
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Thank you everyone and have a great christmas and newyear.
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Hi everyone,

Id like to ask you kind People if there is a scripted way to query AD to determine what domain controllers are NOT global catalogs?

Is there also a way to then via script, make those domain controllers found, global catalogs?

Thank you everyone and have a great christmas and newyear.

Identifying what domain controllers are not global catalogs

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