How to get the Domain per VM ?

[meistermn]

How to get the domain (different domains! ) of any vm that is in Virtual Center?

[LucD]

Does the attached script work for you ?

You do need to have VMware Tools installed.

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[meistermn]

No, only partly.

FOr example:

VM is in Domain A

VM is in Domain B

VM is in Domain C

VM is in Workgroup A

VM is in Workgroup B

and so on.

So I thought with get-vm and a filter I can get all the powered on windows vms .

Now if I want read , execute or copy something inside the vm, then I need the domain of the vm, because I have to use credentials in a form of domainxy/userxy logic. At this step I get an array of get-vm and with it couldn't the active dirctory per adsi get the domain or workgroup of the vm?

So I thought it is like the function GetComputerNames and GetDomainNames ?

http://cyrusbuilt.net/wordpress/?p=104

But what happens if i only have rights to Domain A and B and C . Wouldn't the script then stop running, because no valid credentials for Domain C exists.

[LucD]

I'm not sure I understand that last question.

If you encounter a guest that is joined to a domain for which you have no account, then you can't use Invoke-VMScript since you have to give guest credentials.

But you should be able to capture that situation in the script before you actually call Invoke-VMScript and thus avoid a failing cmdlet.

Or did I get the question completely wrong ?

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[meistermn]

here is another example why script which calls wmi inside vm's will not work for several domains and workgroups because of the credentials

http://ict-freak.nl/2009/12/15/powercli-check-partition-alignment-windows-vms-only/

[meistermn]

1.) I though I can do fowolling : from get-vm cmdlet get only the windows computers

2.) The list or array is then used for getting the domain of the computer

List Domain Information Using WMI ( I only need the part Wscript.Echo "Domain Name: " & objItem.DomainName)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/fd6ef110-011f-4799-b923-59c35d0d52df

3.) Check if the user account is allowed to logon . This means to query administrators group if the user exist in this group. If it exist the script executes the wmi call

[LucD]

Did you think of using a local account to use the Invoke-VMScript cmdlet ?

Then you should be able to find the domain/workgroup from there.

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