Joining a PC to the domain

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Active Directory

Objective

Join PC01 to the lab.builab.ca domain

Process

Getting to system properties is subject to change
Go to “About your PC”
Click rename this PC (advanced) to get the following popup
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Select change to configure the domain information
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Enter credentials of a user authorized to join devices to the domain.
Here we are using the domain administrator account to join the PC
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For this lab I created a user on the Domain controller named “michael-onprem”
We will use these credentials to log into the domain as a normal user
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Conclusion

PC is now added to the domain
We can confirm this by going to our ADDS and seeing the list of Computers on the domain
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