Powershell Domain Join Specific Ou

Rename computer join it to the domain and put it in a defined ou this script can be used to do the following three things.

Powershell domain join specific ou. I will provide step by step instructions for adding a single computer and multiple computers to the domain. Gurmeet did you explored using unattended installation where you have already defined the ou location do you folks use any 3rd party tool to build these vm s you can either use the pre created computer object in ad manual or join them to domain which will. Join a computer to a domain and place it in a specific container ou powershell add computer domainname yourdomainhere ydh credential domain username oupath ou yourou ou yourou dc yourdc dc yourdc you can copy and paste into notepad to. Join the computer to the domain.

Idealy i would like to use ps to join the domain like you have listed but based on the first 3 letters of the computer name typed in join specific ous for instance if your name name was par1234 join the paris ou if the computer name was aus1234 join the. This entry was posted in microsoft scripting and tagged joint a windows server to a specific ou in a windows domain. Simple netsh script to assign multiple ips dns gateway etc. When you join a computer to a domain by default the computer is placed in the computers container which technically is not an ou so you can t link group policy objects to it.

Also i ll show you how to move the computer to an ou once it s been. Change the hostname of a computer. My best practice is to switch the default ou from the computers container to a sub ou under a production ou. If the computer object exists either delete the existing object and join the correct ou or join the existing object and move that.

Put the computer account into the specified domain.