There are a several programs and scripts to get the members of local administrators group on a Windowx XP or Win2K Pro computers. Recently I wrote a batch file based on the command
psexec -n 5 \\<computer_name> net localgroup administrators
‘psexec’ is a command line utility that allows you to run processes on remote computers. The utility [...]
There are a lot of scripts floating around to export members of AD group. Following is one way of displaying first and last names via command line
dsquery group -name <name_of_the_group> | dsget group -members | dsget user -fn -ln
To learn more about dsquery and dsget, please see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732952.aspx, and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755162.aspx.
If you ever need to update the DNS records for your servers, make sure that you set the TTL value to few seconds first. This will minimize your downtime to a few seconds.
TTL (or time to live) is the amount of time for which other computers or DNS servers will cache your IP address. Suppose [...]