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Join XP clients to new domain using NETDOM
Scenario:
Win 2003 Standard SP1 domain
Windows XP Pro clients
The 2k3 domain is a new domain, the clients are joined to an old NT4 domain.
Planning to script the client-joining to the new domain using netdom.exe from the support tools.
Also aware of the use of usmt to copy the client profiles from the old domain to the new, but at first I want to create a basic script that simply joins the computers to the new domain.
Anyone done this before?
VBscript is the most handy tool for the job?
Win 2003 Standard SP1 domain
Windows XP Pro clients
The 2k3 domain is a new domain, the clients are joined to an old NT4 domain.
Planning to script the client-joining to the new domain using netdom.exe from the support tools.
Also aware of the use of usmt to copy the client profiles from the old domain to the new, but at first I want to create a basic script that simply joins the computers to the new domain.
Anyone done this before?
VBscript is the most handy tool for the job?
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D:\suptools2k3>netdom join %computername% /Domain:domain.contoso.com /
Userd:domain\administrator /Passwordd:password /UserO:administrator /PasswordO:password
The command completed successfully.
This one worked. Will also use the /OU and /reboot parameters and run this command from a batch file.
Now the next issue is to include USMT somehow....maybe call a *vbs from the batch? Any ideas?
Userd:domain\administrator
The command completed successfully.
This one worked. Will also use the /OU and /reboot parameters and run this command from a batch file.
Now the next issue is to include USMT somehow....maybe call a *vbs from the batch? Any ideas?
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"The parameter /Domain was unexpected."
What am I doing wrong? Tried several combinations...
What`s the point of pre-create the computer accounts? To manage which OU`s they`re put in? This can be done with the [/OU:ou path].
NETDOM ADD machine /Domain:domain [/UserD:user] [/PasswordD:[password | *]]
[/Server:server] [/OU:ou path] [/DC]