Add newly created vm to domain

[BrianGordon84]

I've been searching the net for days trying to find out if it's possible to add a newly created vm to our domain but I'm running into a few problems. I'm not even sure if this is possible. I have an admin account that I'm running this script under but that doesn't really matter since the template vm's aren't actually a member of the domain so the account doesn't have any privledges. Here's the scrip that I'm using:

$domain = "xxxx"

$domainpw = "xxxxxx"

$username = "xxxxxxx"

function JoinDomain {

$domain = "domain.net"

$domainpw = "localadminpassword"

$username = "localadminusername"

$servers = (Get-Content servers.txt)

$servers | ForEach-Object $_ {

$DomainUser = $Domain + "\" + $Username

$OU = $null

$ComputerSystem = gwmi Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName 10.2.4.205 -Credential localadminusername

Write-Host $ComputerSystem

$ComputerSystem.JoinDomainOrWorkGroup($Domain,$domainpw,$username)

}

}

JoinDomain

So, like I said, I tried running this with my domain admin account and run into an access denied error. So I changed the -Credential to a local username on the newly created vm and entered the password for the account when prompted. However, I still run into access denied error. Any ideas on this? Is it even possible or am I wasting my time?

[raghavendrats]

It's Working for me. Thank you very much.

[Kiala]

Hi LucD,

I am uing folloing script to add the VM to domain and it works great.

function Join-DomainOrWorkGroup
{

$username = "administrator"
$Domain = "test.com"
$DomainPassword = "xxxxxxx"
$Domainusername = "administrator"
$FJoinOptions = "3"

$ComputerSystem = gwmi Win32_ComputerSystem -ComputerName 10.x.x.x -Credential $username

-Authentication 6 -Impersonation Impersonate

$ComputerSystem.JoinDomainOrWorkGroup($Domain,$DomainPassword,$Domain + "\" +

$Domainusername,$null,$FJoinOptions)

}
Join-DomainOrWorkGroup

But I have two more criterias which I need to fullfill,

1. I need to restart each VM automatically after joining it to domain. Which command I should and where should I add in the script?

2. I have a list of 50 VMs on the same host. How can I implement on all of them in a single shot. Can the script take the input from an excel or csv file or any other alternative?

Thanks for your help!