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If you have the AD DS role installed then Dcdiag is already installed. There is a really good chance that you already have the Dcdiag tool installed. If you want to run Dcdiag or use the Active Directory Health Check tool you will need to install the RSAT tools. If you are interested in learning exactly what the Dcdiag command does then I recommend you read that post. I came across a good blog post by Ned Pyle called What does DCDiag actually do that explains each test in more details. I’ll have to admit the descriptions from the help command are not that helpful. You can view a list of tests in the command help menu, run dcdiag /? to see the help menu. So what does Dcdiag actually do? What kinds of tests does it perform? I counted a total of 30 different tests, and some tests had multiple tests. Well, it actually does a pretty good job! I was surprised to find out how many different tests this command actually did. You might be thinking, how well does a command line utility really do at testing and finding issues with domain controllers? You can choose to analyze a single domain controller or all DC’s in a forest.

Automate AD Health Check (Email Report)ĭcdiag is a Microsoft Windows command line utility that can analyze the state of domain controllers in a forest or enterprise.

Check Active Directory Health Using Dcdiag.

I’ll also show you a GUI tool that lets you check the health of multiple domain controllers at once.īe sure to check the examples section below and I’ll show you the output of a normal domain controller and one that has issues. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Dcdiag command line utility to perform a domain controller health Check and test DNS.