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The other day I passed on a tweet I came across about creating a PowerShell prompt that displayed the domain controller that authenticated you. The original post <\/a>was in a NetApp forum. Later I realized what was posted was something specific to NetApp's PowerShell Toolkit. But you can use the same idea in a regular PowerShell session using the %LOGONSERVER% system environmental variable. <\/p>\n

In PowerShell we would retrieve the variable with $env:logonserver. In a workgroup, or if for some reason you didn't authenticate to a domain controller, this value should be the same as the computername. So I tweaked the original idea.<\/p>\n

[cc lang=\"PowerShell\"]
\nfunction prompt {<\/p>\n

#check and see if logon server is the same as the computername
\nif ( $env:logonserver -ne \"\\\\$env:computername\" ) {
\n#strip off the \\\\
\n$label = ($env:logonserver).Substring(2)
\n$color = \"Green\"
\n}
\nelse {
\n$label = \"Not Connected\"
\n$color = \"gray\"
\n}<\/p>\n

Write-Host (\"[$label]\") -ForegroundColor $color -NoNewline
\nWrite (\" PS \" + (Get-Location) + \"> \")
\n}
\n[\/cc]<\/p>\n

Within the prompt function is a simple If statement that defines variables for label and color. One limitation with what I have so far is that if you run this on a domain controller it will show as not connected. But I'll leave handling that scenario to you.<\/p>\n

Download dcprompt.ps1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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