What is an excellent way to check the Domain Controller health? Perhaps you want to add a new Domain Controller to an existing domain, and before doing that, you want to check the Active Directory health state. Let’s see how to health check Active Directory with an excellent PowerShell script.

Why you want to check Active Directory health

It’s good to check the Domain Controllers health if there are incidents, problems, or changes that you have to apply:

• There is a problem with Active Directory
• There are problems between Domain Controllers
• Before/after a Windows Update on the Domain Controller
• Before/after installing a new Domain Controller in the organization
• Before/after a Domain Controller demote

Active Directory health check PowerShell script

The Get-ADHealth.ps1 PowerShell script will check the health of your AD environment and provide you with a report that you can use to identify and resolve any issues:

1. Server
2. Site
3. OS Version
4. IPv4 Address
5. Operation Master Roles
6. DNS
7. Ping
8. Uptime (hours)
9. OS Free Space (%)
10. OS Free Space (GB)