Domain Join Using Powershell

This blog post describes how to join a computer to the domain by using the graphical user interface or running a simple one liner in powershell.

Domain join using powershell. Testing the environment run powershell with administrative privileges. The dns server must point to one of your domain controller. The add computer cmdlet used to add the local or remote computer to a domain.

In this blog post i will show you how i join a windows machine windows 10 or server to an active directory domain using a powershell script. The active directory domain join of a computer can be done using either the gui or using command line and powershell. It is also possible to do it using the gui.

In this tutorial i will explain how to join a computer to a domain using the various command lines that are. Thankfully we can automate this with powershell when we join the computers to the domain. This command adds the local computer to the domain01 domain by using the domain01 dc01 domain controller.

It is best practice to move the computers from the default folder to a different ou. It also can be used to add to a workgroup or to move it from one domain to another. The commandline under firstlogoncommands is set to.

Join computer to domain and specify ou path with powershell. In the end i gave up trying to get wds to do the automatic domain join on windows 10 via the imageunattend xml and instead did it via powershell. Add computer domainname domain01 server domain01 dc01 passthru verbose.

My 1st script is fired via oobe microsoft windows shell setup. Run this command to join a computer to the domain and specify the ou path. Join or unjoin a computer to a domain through powershell with powershell 2 this was done through wmi specifically by using the win32 computersystem class and the attached joindomainorworkgroup method.