Domain Join Logs
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Domain join logs. Sign out of your machine at the sign in screen select other user. It will take sometime to join windows 10 to domain. Administrators often encounter problems when joining a computer running windows to an ad ds domain.
This log file can contain many entries. If you ve tried everything above and the domain join process still fails look at the device s netsetup log file in the c windows debug folder. Log into your local account while your computer is joined to a domain.
The domain join process fails on authenticating to the domain or authorization to complete the domain join process using the credentials provides. If we have a server that fails to be promoted to a dc it records the information in the dcpromo log and the dcpromoui log. But the netsetup log is used for logging domain joins including joinings to a workgroup.
When you return to system properties click close. When an attempt to join a domain fails a log is generated by default at var log domainjoin cli log or var adm. Then on the restart notice click ok.
The logfile option captures information about the attempt to join the domain on the screen or in a file. Enter the machine name followed by a backslash and. When you type the domain name make sure you type the dns domain name rather than the netbios name.
Then it will return a welcome screen. So open it in a text editor and search for instances of the word netpjoindomain. Reboot the machine you are trying to join to the domain to ensure there are no latent connections to any of the domain servers.