Powershell Join Domain Existing Computer Account

The add computer cmdlet adds the local computer or remote computers to a domain or workgroup or moves them from one domain to another.

Powershell join domain existing computer account. It also creates a domain account if the computer is added to the domain without an account. But in my experience this never works. If such a domain controller is not found it tries to find another domain controller. To troubleshoot this you may immediately try to reset the computer s account object in active directory reboot the computer and hope for the best.

The only true fix i ve seen is to remove the workstation from the domain reboot to apply the change join it to the domain and reboot again. Also i ll show you how to move the computer to an ou once it s been. To get the results of the command. You can use this cmdlet to provision a computer account before the computer is added to the domain.

The join process looks for a domain controller that already has a computer account for the computer that is currently being joined. These pre created computer objects can be used with offline domain join unsecure domain join and rodc domain join scenarios. As far as i remember from my last job when you are trying to join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name you should receive a notification and are not allowed to do that. In this new company it seems when you join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name you are allowed to do that and that will destroy the relationship of the other machine and domain.

I will provide step by step instructions for adding a single computer and multiple computers to the domain. It uses the credential parameter to specify a user account that has permission to reset a computer password in the domain. The machine account must be added to the allowed list for password replication policy and the account password must be replicated to the read only domain controller prior to the join operation. This command resets the computer password of the local computer by using the dc01 domain controller.