How To Find Which AD Site A Server Belongs To

by Rajith Jose Enchiparambil on November 22, 2012

We might need this info at times, especially when installing Exchange in a large organization with a number of AD sites.

We can easily find this info from the command line. Run the following from your workstation.

Nltest /server:remoteservername /dsgetsite

Find which AD site a remote server belongs to

If you are running the command locally on the server, nltest /dsgetsite will do.

Find which AD Site server belongs to

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Rajith Jose Enchiparambil

Exchange Architect, Blogger, Husband & Dad. I have been in IT for the last 11 years, with Exchange Server becoming the prime area in the last few years. I am active on TechNet forums & Experts Exchange.

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