Re: Join a PC to a specific OU?

From: Oli Restorick [MVP] (oli_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:33:27 +0100

Hi Gerry

Netdom.exe (part of the support tools on the CD) can do this from the
command line. I would recommend that you create a dedicated user for this
and use the delegation of control wizard to allow it to create and delete
computer objects in the specific OUs you want.

Hope this helps

Oli

"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:u0GoQdePEHA.680@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have a pure AD Win2k network with some OUs. How can I manually join a
> client PC to the domain to a specific OU?
>
> I'm aware of Unattend facilities for this, but how can I do it sitting at
> the PC?
>
> --
> Gerry Hickman (London UK)

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