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Joins a workstation or member server to a domain. The act of joining a computer to a domain creates an account for the computer on the domain, if it does not already exist. Moves a workstation or member server to a new domain.

The act of moving a computer to a new domain creates an account for the computer on the domain, if it does not already exist. Renames a Windows NT 4. This can assist in Windows NT 4. Renames a domain computer and its corresponding domain account.

Use this command to rename domain workstations and member servers only. To rename domain controllers, use the netdom computername command. A trust relationship is a defined affiliation between domains that enables pass-through authentication. A one-way trust relationship between two domains means that one domain the trusting domain allows users who have accounts on the other domain the trusted domain , access to its resources.

For whatever reason, there is really no good way of doing this. After searching through various scripts to do this job, I finally found a pretty good way of doing this. All it requires is a little vb script and netdom. First off, you will need to download the Windows XP Support tools from here. After it is installed, we are going to create a vb script. Open Notepad and copy and paste the following text into Notepad. Call WSHShell. In addition, the Windows PowerShell command is easier to read, and they support prototyping.

An example of using Windows PowerShell to add a computer to the domain, rename the computer, and reboot the machine is shown here. The Get-WmiObject cmdlet has an alias of gwmi , and it will also take credentials if required. Because this class returns only one instance, I can use my group and dot trick see My Ten Favorite Windows PowerShell Tricks to directly call the Rename method to rename the computer. After I rename the computer, I use the Add-Computer cmdlet to join the computer to the domain.

The Add-Computer cmdlet allows me to specify the credentials that have rights to add computers to the domain, in addition to the name of the domain to join. Although I did not do it in my example, there is also an ou parameter that allows you to specify the path to the OU that will contain the newly created computer account.

The last command, Restart-Computer , appears without any parameters. This means that the computer will restart within one minute, and it will attempt to cause processes to politely exit generally a good thing. For emergency type of situations, there is the Force switch that will cause the computer to immediately restart, and not wait on processes to politely exit. The use of this optional parameter can lead to data loss in some situations.

In the image that follows, I first use the Get-WmiObject cmdlet to rename the computer. The image shows the return value is 0, which means that the command completed successfully. Next, I use the Add-Computer cmdlet to join the computer to the iammred domain by using the administrator credentials.

The command completed successfully, but a warning message states that a reboot is required for the change to actually take place. The last command shown in the image uses the Restart-Computer cmdlet to restart the computer. I added the WhatIf parameter to illustrate what happens when using the WhatIf parameter and to permit myself time to make the screenshot.

After I remove the WhatIf switch, and rerun the Restart-Computer cmdlet, a message box appears that states the computer will shut down in a minute or less. After the quick reboot, I am able to switch from using a local account to a domain account, because the computer has now joined the domain.

The commands are short, sweet, easy to remember, and easy to use.