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Windows 2003 SP2 64-bit Domain Joining Bug

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On a recent project we were automating the build of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 2003 SP2 servers. This was within a very large “Global” Active Directory environment, with many Trusted and External Domains. The 32-bit builds were working fine, but the 64-bit builds were not adhering to the Active Directory Sites and Services locations to … Read more

Script to Join a Computer to the Domain

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This script will join a computer to a domain. You can either specify the parameters as command line arguments, or look them up in an ini file.

If an OU is not specified, the value is set to NULL, which means that the computer object will be placed in the OU/Container that is set as the Domain default within Active Directory, which is typically the Computers container.

It also checks to see if the computer object already exists in AD. If it does, it will join to the object in its existing location.

IMPORTANT: Refer to the %SystemRoot%\Debug\NetSetup.LOG file to help fault find any issues with the domain joining process.

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