Domain Join Best Practices

Our domain also used redirected my documents and offline files.

Domain join best practices. As it s not a daily job to setup a new ad domain and internal dns from scratch so it might help to have some references to best practices. This server is a member of a workgroup. Apparently it s a pretty frequent topic on ad and network platforms.

Join the pc to the domain. The first way that i am seeing is to setup a delegated group with domain join rights and have the individual help desk users be part of that group and use their credentials to join the computers to the domain. Generic tlds like local lan corp etc are now being sold by icann so the domain you re using internally today company local could potentially become another company s.

What is the best practice for joining a laptop or any pc that is already set up and in use to a domain. Plus there are some strict technical guidelines that apply here even for internal dns configurations. Joining this computer to the domain allows centralized management through policies for identity security and auditing.

Before we discuss current best practices there are a couple of popular practices that are no longer recommended. In the following sections italics indicates ui text that appears in the best practices analyzer tool for this issue. There is no central management for this server.