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Sometimes it can useful to add a computer to a domain Table of Last Update: Sep 04, 2024
using the command line, such as when no GUI is available (as May 15, 2014
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is the case with Server Core), or just to expedite the process
Table of Russell Smith, the Editorial Director at Petri IT
when configuring multiple computers. In this easy Ask the
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command line as a comma-delimited list. You can use the – Submit View results
computername parameter even if PowerShell Remoting isn’t
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In a PowerShell command prompt, type add-computer -


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ad.contoso.com domain. The account used to run the
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join both servers to the domain. You could also specify a list
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add-computer -computername (get-content servers.txt)
-domainname ad.contoso.com –credential ADadminuser
-restart –force

In the above command, servers.txt would need to be located


in the PowerShell working directory.

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