Powershell Join Domain Existing Computer Account
But in my experience this never works.
Powershell join domain existing computer account. You can use the parameters of this cmdlet to specify an organizational unit ou and domain controller or to perform an unsecure join. In this tutorial you ll learn how to join a computer to the domain using powershell. In this new company it seems when you join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name you are allowed to do that and that will destroy the relationship of the other machine and domain.
To get the results of the command. The machine account must be added to the allowed list for password replication policy and the account password must be replicated to the read only domain controller prior to the join operation. Use an existing machine account to join the computer to a read only domain controller.
As far as i remember from my last job when you are trying to join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name you should receive a notification and are not allowed to do that. This command resets the computer password of the local computer by using the dc01 domain controller. The join process looks for a domain controller that already has a computer account for the computer that is currently being joined.
You can use this cmdlet to provision a computer account before the computer is added to the domain. It uses the credential parameter to specify a user account that has permission to reset a computer password in the domain. If such a domain controller is not found it tries to find another domain controller.
These pre created computer objects can be used with offline domain join unsecure domain join and rodc domain join scenarios. Also i ll show you how to move the computer to an ou once it s been. 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 only true fix i ve seen is to remove the workstation from the domain reboot to apply the change join it to the domain and reboot again.