How do you associate AD Users and Computers with workstations?

berderder · February 17, 2017

Hi everyone,

I'm basically in a lab environment right now practicing using Active Directory. I have a server running Windows Small Business Server 2011 and have 3 workstations.

How do I associate the users and computer accounts I've made on the server Active Directory with the workstations?

I created all 3 computer accounts, and all 3 user accounts. We have computers 1, 2, and 3 and users A, B, and C.

Pretty new to this, so thank you for any help you can give.

brwainer · February 17, 2017

You don't normally make computer accounts ahead of time - you Join the computers to the domain via the System Properties - go to where you can rename the computer, and you can change it from a Workgroup to a Domain. If the option for a Domain is greyed out, then the computers aren't running a SKU that can join a domain (like Pro, Enterprise, or Ultimate)

FadeZ · February 17, 2017

14 minutes ago, brwainer said:

You don't normally make computer accounts ahead of time - you Join the computers to the domain via the System Properties - go to where you can rename the computer, and you can change it from a Workgroup to a Domain. If the option for a Domain is greyed out, then the computers aren't running a SKU that can join a domain (like Pro, Enterprise, or Ultimate)

Been awhile scene i have looked into this crap but I believe the Idea is just so they do not get put into the computers OU when they join, they will be placed were ever you stage them to.

berderder · February 17, 2017

28 minutes ago, brwainer said:

You don't normally make computer accounts ahead of time - you Join the computers to the domain via the System Properties - go to where you can rename the computer, and you can change it from a Workgroup to a Domain. If the option for a Domain is greyed out, then the computers aren't running a SKU that can join a domain (like Pro, Enterprise, or Ultimate)

Great, thank you. Trying now