JSI Tip 8540. How can I retrieve the distinguished name of the domain I am logged on to?

You can attempt to determine the distinguished name of the domain your are logged on to by parsing the %USERDNSDOMAIN% environment variable.

In How do I determine the forest root domain in a batch, I used vbscript to retrieve the forest root domain.

To retrieve the domain's DN from Active Directory, I have scripted DomainDN.bat.

DomainDN.bat uses the DSQUERY Active Directory command-line tool.

The syntax for using DomainDN.bat is:

DomainDN DN

Where DN is a call directed environment variable that will contain the distinguished name of the domain you are logged on to.

Example:

When I use DomainDN DN, DN is set to DC=JSIINC,DC=COM.

DomainDN.bat contains:

@echo offif {%1}=={} @echo Syntax: DomainDN DN&goto :EOFfor /f "Skip=1 Tokens=*" %%d in ('dsquery * domainroot -filter "(&(objectCategory=domainDNS)(objectClass=domain))" -attr distinguishedName -limit 0') do ( set %1=%%d)