how domain join works during OSD SCCM 2012 r2Sp1

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_{Monday, October 12, 2015 10:36 AM}

how Domian join works in OSD sccm 2012 r2Sp1 and how it works for untrusted domain and forest

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_{Monday, October 12, 2015 11:25 AM ✅Answered}

You can use a step in your Task-Sequence called "Join Domain or Workgroup" or "Apply Network Settings":

There you can specify the Domain, Organizational Unit where the Computer account will be placed and also an account which has the permission to join Computers to the Domain. You can use a Domain Admin account or you can create a dedicated "Join Domain" Account as described here: http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/creating-a-joindomain-account-for-use-with-sccm-osd/

Simon Dettling | msitproblog.com | @SimonDettling

_{Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3:39 AM ✅Answered}

When used with "Apply Network Settings" -step, it is just something that get's passed to the unattended.xml through the ConfigMgr task sequence graphical user interface. The technology is in the Windows setup process and how it processes the 'configuration' file that ConfigMgr passess the values. More on answer files and how the Windows installation process works can be found from TechNet, for example https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349348.aspx

When used with "Join Domain" -step, it is just running a command on the computer telling it to run according to the parameters you specified in the GUI, it might be actually using netdom join -command, more on it here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788049.aspx

That's how it technically works behind the scenes, of course there are requirements to get it working correctly:

• Name resolving (DNS) must work correclty
• User account used in either "Apply Network Settings" or "Join Domain" -step must have the correct permissions to do the join part, more on this can be found here http://blog.coretech.dk/mip/creating-a-joindomain-account-for-use-with-sccm-osd/