Detect AD schema version from PowerShell

Just wanted to share a quick one-liner to check Active Directory domain and forest functional level with AD cmdlets:

[PS] C:\ >Get-QADRootDSE | Format-List *

DomainControllerFunctionality : Windows2003
DomainFunctionality : Windows2003
ForestFunctionality : Windows2003
IsGlobalCatalogReady : True
... and so on ...

Quick, easy and comes quite handy. Besides the AD schema info there’s other useful information – so definitely worth adding to your arsenal.

[UPDATE] Shay and MoW both contacted me saying that I did not include the one-liner which would give you the exact version number. Here you go:

(Get-QADObject (Get-QADRootDSE).SchemaNamingContext -IncludedProperties objectVersion).objectVersion