Batch - Join Domain Batch File

This is a batch file to automatically join the computer to the specified domain, the purposes of the batch file as below :-

• To avoid typography error in domain name.
• To avoid mismatch username and password when joining to domain.

Syntax of the command :
 

netdom join %COMPUTERNAME% /domain:[domain name] /userd:[domain\username] /passwordd:[password]

 

• %COMPUTERNAME% = Computer's Name, a variables.
• [domain name] = The actual domain name (eg. google.com)
• [domain\username] = The actual domain's username (eg. google.com\administrator)
• [password] = The username's password.

Of course you can put in a lot of things into this batch file such as checking the computer's name validity (eg. length of the name, cross checking with a database file to match the S/N etc.)

Note that the "netdom" command is NOT AVAILABLE in standard Windows 7 OS, it must be installed separately. Download & install Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT).

Once installed you need to enable the "AD DS Command-Line Utility" before you can start using the "netdom" command.