Hi,
there are two ways to join or leave a domain. The netdom command or the Powershell Command lets add-computer and remove-computer.
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VMware: Computer Account is disabled after deploying Windows Clients
Hello,
last week I had to deploy 25virtual Windows (XP) Clients an on VMware ESX Cluster. One of the requirements was that the clients must be member of a Windows Active Directory.
After setting up vCenter (copy sysprep) I installed a reference Windows XP vm, convert them to a template and defined a Customization Specification like this:
During the cloning process, by using the template with the recently created custom spec, the domain join always fails and the Computer Account was disabled at each try.
Ok, now I tried modify some parameter of the Custom Specification:
- Changing the Domain from fqdn to the NetBIOS Domain “SUB”
- Altered the Username to SUB\joinuser or joinuser@SUB or joinuser@sub.domain.org
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