Domain Join The Specified Account Already Exists

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Domain join the specified account already exists. The join process looks for a domain controller that already has a computer account for the computer that is currently being joined. To add to gary s point if you try to rejoin the domain with the same computer name as the one that was removed you will get a message that computer account already exists in ad having that name and will not be able to join the domain again until you delete. Hate microsoft even more now. Join domain the specified account already exists category.

After demoted secondary ad because of replication failure run dcpromo forceremoval the same secondary machine can t rejoin primary. Active directory windows server 2003 windows server 2008 skyhi sunday may 23 2010 note. If this operation has ultimately lead to the same the specified account already exists error move down to the next potential fix below. The specified user already exists in the ad users and computers we were not able to find any such account in the entire directory as the disabled accounts existed in a non built in container.