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title: "Get-VBRADForestDomainController"
description: "This cmdlet returns domain controllers that belong to the specified Active Directory domain."
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# Get-VBRADForestDomainController

## Short Description
Returns domain controllers for an Active Directory domain.

**Platform**: VMware, Hyper-V

**Product Edition**: Veeam Universal License

## Syntax
```
Get-VBRADForestDomainController -ADForestDomain <VBRADForestDomain> [<CommonParameters>]
```

## Detailed Description
This cmdlet returns domain controllers that belong to the specified Active Directory domain.

## Parameters

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          <p>Parameter</p>
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        <th style="width:20%;">
          <p>Description</p>
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          <p>Type</p>
        </th>
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          <p>Required</p>
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          <p>Position</p>
        </th>
        <th style="width:10%;">
          <p>Accept Pipeline Input</p>
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        <td>
          <p class="Table_Text_Bold"><span class="Table_Text_Bold">ADForestDomain</span></p>
        </td>
        <td>
          <p>Specifies the Active Directory domain for which to return domain controllers.</p><p>Accepts the <a href="vbradforestdomain.md"><code>VBRADForestDomain</code></a> object. To get this object, run the <a href="get-vbradforestdomain.md"><code>Get-VBRADForestDomain</code></a> cmdlet.</p>
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        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p><a href="vbradforestdomain.md"><code>VBRADForestDomain</code></a></p>
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          <p>True</p>
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        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>Named</p>
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        <td style="width:10%;">
          <p>True (ByValue)</p>
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`<CommonParameters>`

This cmdlet supports Microsoft PowerShell common parameters. For more information on common parameters, see [ Microsoft Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_commonparameters?view=powershell-7).

## Output Object
The cmdlet returns the [`VBRADForestDomainController`](vbradforestdomaincontroller.md)`[]` object that contains information about the domain controllers within an Active Directory domain.

## Examples

::: example
### Getting Domain Controllers for Active Directory Domain

This example shows how to get all domain controllers for an Active Directory domain.

```
$forest = Get-VBRADForest
$domain = Get-VBRADForestDomain -ADForest $forest
Get-VBRADForestDomainController -ADForestDomain $domain
```

Perform the following steps:

1. Run the [`Get-VBRADForest`](get-vbradforest.md) cmdlet. Save the result to the `$forest` variable.
2. Run the [`Get-VBRADForestDomain`](get-vbradforestdomain.md) cmdlet. Set the `$forest` variable as the `ADForest` parameter value. Save the result to the `$domain` variable.
3. Run the `Get-VBRADForestDomainController` cmdlet. Set the `$domain` variable as the `ADForestDomain` parameter value.

:::

## Related Commands

- [`Get-VBRADForest`](get-vbradforest.md)
- [`Get-VBRADForestDomain`](get-vbradforestdomain.md)