Domain Join Ou Path

In this article i will share the steps to add linux to windows active directory domain this article was written while using centos 7 so it is safe to say that it also fully covers rhel 7 fedora oracle enterprise linux and generally the whole red hat.

Domain join ou path. Windows server 2008 windows server 2008 r2 windows server 2012 windows 8 joins a workstation or member server to a domain. Idealy i would like to use ps to join the domain like you have listed but based on the first 3 letters of the computer name typed in join specific ous for instance if your name name was par1234 join the paris ou if the computer name was aus1234 join the. This is only used when adding the target host to a domain if it is already a member then it is.

Thankfully we can automate this. The act of joining a computer to a domain creates an. To get the results of the command.

Join computer to domain and specify ou path with powershell when you join a computer to the domain it will by default go the computers folder. Domain ou path string the desired ou path for adding the computer object. It is best practice to move the computers from the default folder to a different ou.

It also creates a domain account if the computer is added to the domain without an account. Microsoft has its identity management suite to build around the active directory and red hat has its identity management directory server. Netdom join 08 31 2016 2 minutes to read in this article applies to.

These credentials are also used to create a local admin account on the vm in case the domain join fails and you need to connect i did need this. Note also that the ou path is specified in the form ou wvd dc yourdomain dc com for example.