Automate Windows Domain Join Powershell
Hi all it s been a while since i ve been on here.
Automate windows domain join powershell. I m running windows server 2k8 r2 standard with windows 7 pro clients. It is best practice to move the computers from the default folder to a different ou. We are due to pre build 100 machines with windows 10 which will have the computer name pre populated which will be a prefix of pc followed by the serial number of the machine.
I don t want to use the waik option because the password is stored in plain text in the xml file. Home home programming powershell powershell automated domain join script not working. In this video i go over creating a simple powershell script to rename workstations and add them to the domain in an ou path.
I am creating a powershell script that joins the computer to the domain at first log on. By joining a computer to a domain. I believe in windows xp the computername and join domain keys were in the generalize pass or the oobe pass which worked fine this was removed in the windows 7 version of waik and that is why it does not work correctly.
It also creates a domain account if the computer is added to the domain without an account. Thankfully we can automate this. You can use the parameters of this cmdlet to specify an organizational unit ou and domain controller or to perform an unsecure join.
The add computer cmdlet adds the local computer or remote computers to a domain or workgroup or moves them from one domain to another. I m trying to create a script to completely automate joining the domain to use during a wds image deployment. My 1st script is fired via oobe microsoft windows.
Powershell solution for windows 10 automatic domain join in the end i gave up trying to get wds to do the automatic domain join on windows 10 via the imageunattend xml and instead did it via powershell. So i ve found some powershell scripts online that look like. Hello all i have been researching a script that will automate the following process.