Hi,
the vCenter GUI offers the ability to add an identity provider like Microsoft AD. In some cases this won’t work. For example if you are not a domain admin and you have to specify in which organisation unit the computer object should created. The computerobject should not exists. Delete an already exiting object, it would be created during the join process!
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if you want to check if a computer is joined ADFS and/or Azure AD use
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These steps describes to join an additional Domain Controller to your previously builted Active Directory. Also first ensure you have a timeserver running in your network. If not I described to install and configure ntp for Linux in this post. ntpd can run on the same machine as samba.
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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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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:
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