How to dinamically query the first available Active Directory Servers

Hi everybody,

I use this code to query Active Directory, with the AD server name hardcoded:

SET @PCdis=(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM OPENQUERY(ADSI,'SELECT Name,distinguishedName FROM ''LDAP://MY_AD_SERVER/OU=XX,OU=Domain Computers,DC=XXX,DC=XXX,DC=XX'' WHERE objectCategory = ''computer'' AND userAccountControl= 4130'));

Recently, my Active Directory server went off-line and I have to change the code of the query to point another AD Server in the forest, my question is:

Is there any way to dinamically query the most-available AD server for querys instead of coding the server name..?

Best regards,

asked May 05, 2012 at 01:28 PM in Default

JD
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1 answer:

If you can drop out to a command prompt or query the registry you can find a value from the system environment variable LOGONSERVER. This usually requires a logged on user to populate though.

An alternative is to PING the domain name for an IP.

answered May 07, 2012 at 12:33 PM