[Paul_Boardman]

I know how to add a PC to a domain. My question is this..

How do you go about adding a remote PC to a domain?

We have over 6000 PCs on our network and I want to know how (if possible) we
could add these PCs into a domain without having to visit each and every one
of them. Most of them currently reside in the Workgroup group across
different subnets and for better management I feel they would be better
placed in a domain.

I'm sure there is a way using AD and Group Policies but I cant remember so
does anyone have any ideas.

The OS is Windows XP Pro SP1 with a mix of 2000 and 2003 servers.

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

You can use a script:

netdom join computername /domain:domainname /userd:username
/passwordd:userpassword

netdom is available in the support tools for Win2k Server and Windows Server
2003.

You can't pump the script out with Group Policy because - well, the
computers aren't joined to the domain yet.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Paul_Boardman" <Paul_Boardman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4BD09320-8190-4EA7-ADAA-709B5D943229@microsoft.com...
> I know how to add a PC to a domain. My question is this..
>
> How do you go about adding a remote PC to a domain?
>
> We have over 6000 PCs on our network and I want to know how (if possible)
we
> could add these PCs into a domain without having to visit each and every
one
> of them. Most of them currently reside in the Workgroup group across
> different subnets and for better management I feel they would be better
> placed in a domain.
>
> I'm sure there is a way using AD and Group Policies but I cant remember so
> does anyone have any ideas.
>
> The OS is Windows XP Pro SP1 with a mix of 2000 and 2003 servers.
>

[Paul_Boardman]

I will give it a shot, thanks for your help

regards

Paul

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" wrote:

> You can use a script:
>
> netdom join computername /domain:domainname /userd:username
> /passwordd:userpassword
>
> netdom is available in the support tools for Win2k Server and Windows Server
> 2003.
>
> You can't pump the script out with Group Policy because - well, the
> computers aren't joined to the domain yet.
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Paul_Boardman" <Paul_Boardman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4BD09320-8190-4EA7-ADAA-709B5D943229@microsoft.com...
> > I know how to add a PC to a domain. My question is this..
> >
> > How do you go about adding a remote PC to a domain?
> >
> > We have over 6000 PCs on our network and I want to know how (if possible)
> we
> > could add these PCs into a domain without having to visit each and every
> one
> > of them. Most of them currently reside in the Workgroup group across
> > different subnets and for better management I feel they would be better
> > placed in a domain.
> >
> > I'm sure there is a way using AD and Group Policies but I cant remember so
> > does anyone have any ideas.
> >
> > The OS is Windows XP Pro SP1 with a mix of 2000 and 2003 servers.
> >
>
>
>