How to troubleshoot Active Directory Connection Problems using PowerShell for Spider

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Summary

This article helps troubleshoot retrieving data from your vCenter.

You are having trouble retrieving data from your vCenter for Spider.

Check if the required Ad Domain Services are installed
```
Get-WindowsFeature -Name AD-Domain-Services
```
Enter the Credentials you want to connect to (if you are trying to connect to a different domain than the computer you are running it is joined to)
```
$cred = Get-Credential
```
This will open the following dialog
Get AD Users from the specified domain (again if you are trying to connect to a different domain than the computer you are running it is joined to)
```
$users = Get-ADUser -Server '<FQDN>' -Credential $cred -Filter '(ObjectClass -eq "user")'
```
If you are connecting to the own domain the -Server and -Credential flag have to be omitted:
```
$users = Get-ADUser -Filter '(ObjectClass -eq "user")'
```
To show the content of the $users variable just run
```
$users
```

Whenever you get a PowerShell error, examine and solve it

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