Re: You Have Exceeded the Maximum Number of Computer Accounts

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From: Ryan Sokolowski [Microsoft] (ryansok_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/07/04


Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:16:14 -0700

See this previous post:

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Ryan Sokolowski
MCSE, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP
Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Charles" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:028b01c4acb5$6cfa5660$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> The MSKB article 314462 discusses the problem:  "You Have
> Exceeded the Maximum Number of Computer Accounts" Error
> Message When You Try to Join a Windows XP Computer to a
> Windows 2000 Domain.
>
> However, there are many unanswered questions.
>
> 1.  It appears as though by default anyone/everyone in
> the "Authenticted Users" group can add up to ten machines
> to the domain.  Why would I ever want non-admins to be
> able to join computers to the domain?
>
> 2.  If I modify the default value of 10 and set the value
> to 0, would that have any implications to our domain
> admins?
>
> 3.  I have created an OU within Active Directory and
> delegated responsibility to it.  For this one OU (and
> only this one OU) I want a non domain admin to be able to
> add as many computers to the domain as required.  How can
> I achieve that in respect to the MSKB 314462?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or feedback
>
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