JoinDomain

You can instruct target devices to either join a domain or a workgroup after the OS is installed. Workgroup mode is the default. To instruct targets to join a domain, modify the following element:

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" ... >

<Identification>

<Credentials>

<Domain></Domain>

<Password></Password>

<Username></Username>

</Credentials>

<JoinDomain></JoinDomain>

</Identification>

</component>

For example:

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" ...>

<Identification>

<Credentials>

<Domain>lan.mycompany.com.de</Domain>

<Password>T3ch3d08</Password>

<Username>administrator</Username>

</Credentials>

<JoinDomain>lan.mycompany.com.de</JoinDomain>

</Identification>

</component>

Note: The user specified must have an access level sufficient to join the domain.

Note: If any of this information is missing or incorrect, the device will join a workgroup instead of a domain.

Note: If the target device was previously managed by HPCA, and the device was previously a member of a domain, the stored domain information will override the contents of the <Domain> and <JoinDomain> elements in the unattend.xml file.

Note: Any information that is set centrally—for example, by using an OS management script to set the domain—will override information in unattend.xml.

See the “JoinDomain” topic in the Unattend.chm help file included in the Windows AIK for more information.


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