Domain Join Over Powershell
You can identify the domain object to get by its distinguished name dn guid security identifier sid dns domain name or netbios name.
Domain join over powershell. Is there a way to call. The get addomain cmdlet gets the active directory domain specified by the parameters. The add computer cmdlet adds the local computer or remote computers to a domain or workgroup or moves them from one domain to another.
The following script works perfectly when i run it on the computer locally which is currently on the workgroup and wanted to be part of the domain. It also creates a domain account if the computer is added to the domain without an account. You can also set the.
The problem is if you are trying to create a single file one click method yours will not work. To get the results of the command. I am kind of new to powershell wmi scripting and trying to join the domain the remote computer via ps wmi script.
I will provide step by step instructions for adding a single computer and multiple computers to the domain. You can specify the domain by setting the identity or current parameters. There may be occasions where you need to join an off site computer to an existing domain at a remote office.
The computers in question already have a computer name that was assigned through the litetouch imaging process. I mentioned it s security shortcomings in the description. This is the only way other than creating a separate file to hold a hash to join.
Open up powershell on the computer you want to. The identity parameter specifies the active directory domain to get. Now that we finished with all of that setup we can test out our setup by attempting to join a domain.