List servers and their DNS server settings

[guv]

I am trying to get a list of server names and their primary and secondary
DNS server settings.

If I try the following command:

get-wmiobject Win32_networkadapterconfiguration -computername "servername |
select name, DNSServerSearchOrder

It would give me the specific servername and its dns addresses.

I know have a list of computernames which I would like to list out and their
DNSserversearchorder settings (DNS settings)

I tried putting the list of computernames in a text file by using
get-qadcomputer | export-csv C:\computername.txt -notype

Then I used the get-content command and the piped into the get-wmiobject
command like below:

$servers = Get-Content c:\computername.txt

ForEach ($server in $servers)
{ get-wmiobject Win32_networkadapterconfiguration -computername $server
| where{$_.IPEnabled -match "True"} | select-object
name,DNSServerSearchOrder

But when I run this command it fails with errors such as an empty pipe
element is not permitted. I dont know if the above script has any synatx
errors or what is the best way to get a list of servers and their dns server
settings.

Can anyone please advise

[Chris Dent]

ForEach does not return output to the pipeline, although you can
work-around that be executing it as a script block. ForEach-Object does.
May as well skip the file as well.

Get-QADComputer | ForEach-Object {
Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computername $_.Name
-Filter "IPEnabled=$True" |
Select-Object Name, DNSServerSearchOrder
}

HTH

Chris

[guv]

If I run the script :

Get-Content c:\computername.txt | `

ForEach-Object {

Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computername $_ | `

Where-Object {$_.IPEnabled -match "True"} | `

Select-Object -property DNSHostName,DNSServerSearchOrder }

And in the computername.txt file I list the servers as :

server1

server2.

On the command line it displays the dnshostname and the dnsserversearchorder
as IP address values.

But when i import the script to a csv file like if i called the script
dns.ps1 and then run the following command:

./dns.ps1 | export.csv c:\servers.csv

the dnsserversearchorder values are displayed as System.String[] in the csv
file and not the IP addresses of the DNS servers. The DNShostname is
displayed fine. Any reason why this is happening and how i can the ipaddress
values in a csv or txt file to be displayed.

"guv" <guv@> wrote in message news:OUM$1NwBLH...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

[Chris Dent]

This will get you a list of servers in a string rather than as an array.

Select-Object DnsHostName, @{n='DNSServers';e={
"$($_.DnsServerSearchOrder)" }}