Answer: There are a few different methods, typically it can be a complex issue to get the subnets of the Active Directory site. The Powershell Active Directory Modules are comprehensive and with loads of options.

Before we go through the steps let’s just take a look at some basic AD information you can gather from a server. From a server attached to an AD – execute the command –

nltest /DSGETDC:

DC: \myDC.net
Address: \1.1.1.1.xx
Dom Guid: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dom Name: mydomain.net
Forest Name: myforest.net
Dc Site Name: myDCsitename
Our Site Name: myDCadsite

This indicates your logon has the privileges to gather the data .But it won’t return the subnets. We’ll need to extract the AD site name , and then use some extra Powershell commands – Get-ADRootDSE and Get-ADObject

The 2 step method   will return the subnets

Step 1 : Get the AD site of the server . Run the command on the server. This will return the current Active Directory site of the server. This specific command will return only the Active Directory Site

nltest /server:myserver /dsgetsite

Step 2 : Get the subnets attached to the AD site

$ADsiteName = “RedhillDevGbdaSite”
$configCnc = (Get-ADRootDSE).ConfigurationNamingContext
$siteContainerDN = (“CN=Sites,” + $configCnc)
$ADsiteDN = “CN=” + $ADsiteName + “,” + $siteContainerDN
$ADsiteOBJ=Get-ADObject -Identity $ADsiteDN -properties *

foreach ($subnetDN in $siteObj.siteObjectBL)
{
$subNet=Get-ADObject -Identity $subnetDN
$subNet.Name
}

Author: Rambler