the more I investigate, the more it gets weirder...
I tried to navigate the AD of the trusted domain, from a connection server using get-user view powercli cmdlet, below the outputs (xxxxx = trusted domain, yyyyy = connection server domain)
case 1: retrieve info about the domain. get-user -domain "xxxxx.local". huge output, but looks like it returns no errors
case 2: retrieve info about a builtin user in the trusted domain. yeah, it works!
PS C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\bin> get-user -name "administrator" -domain "xxxxxxx.lan"
user : 0
displayName : yyyyyyy.local\Administrators
distinguishedName : CN=Administrators,CN=Builtin,DC=yyyyyyyyy,DC=local
Firstname :
Surname :
sid : S-1-5-32-544
cn : Administrators
user : 1
displayName : yyyyyyyyyyyy.local\Administrator
distinguishedName : CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=yyyyyyyyyyy,DC=local
Firstname :
Surname :
sid : S-1-5-21-2745305268-983004932-2151912999-500
cn : Administrator
case 3: retrieve info about a normal user in the trusted domain. error!
PS C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\bin> get-user -name "zzzzz" -domain "xxxxx.lan"
Get-User : PowershellService::GetUser FAILED, error=No users/groups found
At line:1 char:9
+ get-user <<<< -name "zzzzzz" -domain "xxxxxx.lan"
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidResult: (vmware.view.powershell.cmdlets.GetUser:GetUser) [Get-User], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PowershellService::GetUser FAILED,vmware.view.powershell.cmdlets.GetUser
Have you ever seen something like that?