How to switch to another domain and get-aduser

Question

I am on a server under the DomainA  I can use Get-ADUser and it s working fine   Now there is a trust built between DomainA and DomainB  I would like to switch to DomainB and get all the users that s in OU New Users  DC DomainB  DC com   I tried these but I get an error    FetchDomainB   Get-ADUser -SearchBase  OU New Users  DC DomainB  DC com    This asks me for Filter and i put in emailadress then it throws an error saying  Supplied distinguished name below to dc DomainA dc net   Same error is thrown for following code as well   PS C   gt   test   Get-ADUser -SearchBase  dc DomainB dc com  -filter  EmailAddress -like   Smith Karla    -Properties EmailAddress

User · Answer

get-aduser -Server  servername  -Identity  username  -Properties    get-aduser -Server  testdomain test net  -Identity testuser -Properties     These work when you have the username  Also less to type than using the -filter property   EDIT  Formatting

User · Answer

best solution TNX to Drew Chapin and all of you too  I just want to add that if you don t inheritently know the name of a domain controller  you can get the closest one  pass it s hostname to the -Server argument   dc   Get-ADDomainController -DomainName example com -Discover -NextClosestSite  Get-ADUser -Server  dc HostName 0        -Filter   EmailAddress -Like  quot  Smith Karla  quot          -Properties EmailAddress  my script   dc   Get-ADDomainController -DomainName example com -Discover -NextClosestSite  Get-ADUser -Server  dc HostName 0    -Filter   EmailAddress -Like  quot  Smith Karla  quot       -Properties EmailAddress   Export-CSV  quot C  Scripts Email csv

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I just want to add that if you don t inheritently know the name of a domain controller  you can get the closest one  pass it s hostname to the -Server argument     dc   Get-ADDomainController -DomainName example com -Discover -NextClosestSite  Get-ADUser -Server  dc HostName 0        -Filter   EmailAddress -Like   Smith Karla           -Properties EmailAddress

User · Answer

Try specifying a DC in DomainB using the -Server property  Ex   Get-ADUser -Server  dc01 DomainB local  -Filter  EmailAddress -like   Smith Karla    -Properties EmailAddress

[powershell] How to switch to another domain and get-aduser

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