Join Domain Powershell Azure

I cannot justify migrating to azure ad if i can t simply roll out joining azure ad to a test group of existing used devices before rolling it out to my entire company.

Join domain powershell azure. 5 minutes to read. When you join a computer to the domain it will by default go the computers folder. It s part of a user name or email address for a user part of the address for a group and is sometimes part of the app id uri for an application.

To domain join a vm without connecting to it and manually configuring the connection you can use the set azvmaddomainextension azure powershell cmdlet. Once the windows server vm has restarted any policies applied in the managed domain are pushed to the vm. Managing custom domain names in your azure active directory.

From about page you can change the windows 10 machine name before joining azure ad by clicking on rename pc windows 10 pc. It is best practice to move the computers from the default folder to a different ou. A domain name is an important part of the identifier for many azure active directory azure ad resources.

We definitely need a way to script this for azure ad to fit in to my environment. Azure active directory domain services azure ad ds provides managed domain services such as domain join group policy ldap kerberos ntlm authentication that is fully compatible with windows server active directory. You want to manage a group of users in azure ad instead of in active directory.

It is unreal that there is no method for scripting a domain join to azure ad still. Each vm can be joined to the domain manually but this is tedious and doesn t scale when domain joining multiple vms. Your users primarily need to access microsoft 365 or other saas apps integrated with azure ad.

When you click on the link join or leave azure ad as mentioned in the above step it will take you to windows 10 settings system about page. You can t use an on premises domain join for example if you need to get mobile devices such as tablets and phones under control. Thankfully we can automate this with powershell when we join the computers to the domain.