Windows Command Line Tips

In this post  it has been explained how to join a machine to a domain using Graphical User Interface(GUI). Some times we may have to do this from some script or programatically. We can use the tool Netdom.exe in such scenarios.

Below is the command we need to run for joining a machine to a domain.

netdom.exe join %computername% /domain:DomainName /UserD:DomainName\UserName /PasswordD:Password

Here Username and Password should be of a domain user having permissions to join a computer to the domain.

Netdom.exe can be downloaded from here