If you join a domain, Active Directory creates a new user account, it no longer uses the Microsoft Account. How to Join a Windows 10 PC to a Domain Leaving the old MS account will not affect the computer and cannot be logged into unless you Leave the Domain. The Hidden Built in Administrator account is not Enabled. It is hidden so you don't.
We are doing a renaming project where I work and all of the PCs have been no problems at all. All of the Macs though are not going as easily. I can change the share name but that does not do anything in Active Directory. So I was wondering if I unbind the computers from Active Directory and then rebind it so that I can change the name will this also destroy all of the Network User(s) data on the machine?
Active Directory-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5), 10.5.x, 10.6.x, Windows 2008 R2
Posted on Jun 30, 2011 1:08 PM
- Currently I am using the below command line to bind any Mac to my AD, and so far has been work perfectly. Dsconfigad -a hostname -u DomainAdminsUserName -p Password -ou 'CN=Computers,DC=hello,DC=com' -domain hello.com -mobile enable -mobileconfirm enable -localhome enable -useuncpath enable -groups 'Domain Admins,Enterprise Admins' -alldomains enable reboot.
- Aug 16, 2016 Typically on Mac when they are disconnected they go away and don't come back unless you manually reconnect them or reboot if you have them set in login items. In windows the mapping stays and just 'X's' the connection then reconnects when it sees the network again.
- About how to leave your laptop form a domain, please kindly refer to the following steps: Step 1. Click Start button, then point to Computer. Right-Click Computer, then click Properties. Under the Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings, click Change Settings. Then hit Change, change the Member of Option to.
We can join a computer to a domain from system properties window. Some times we may need to do this from command line or from a batch file without any user interaction. We can use the tool Netdom.exe in such scenarios.
Below is the command we need to run for joining the machine to a domain.
Here Username and Password should be of a the domain specified in /domain switch. The user should have privileges to join a computer to the domain.
How to remove a computer from a domain using netdom?
Disconnect Mac From Domain Unbind Account
You can run the below command to remove a machine from the domain.