#Rejoin computer to domain windows
To reset a forgotten administrator password, follow these steps: ^ If there aren't any local administrator accounts you can use for this, you can create one (or enable the disabled built-in Administrator account) with the well-known Sticky Keys hack. Test-ComputerSecureChannel -Credential (Get-Credential) -VerboseĪdd the -Repair parameter to perform the actual repair use credentials for an account that's authorized to join computers to the domain. We may now use the Test-ComputerSecureChannel cmdlet.
The account whose credentials you provided must be a member of the Local Administrators group. In an elevated command prompt type: netdom reset MachineName /domain:DomainName /usero:UserName /passwordo:Password.In an elevated command prompt type: dsmod computer "ComputerDN" -reset.Then re-join without un-joining the computer to the domain. In AD right-click the computer and select Reset Account.Instead of doing that we can just reset the secure channel. You’ll have to recreate all of that stuff from the excellent documentation that you’ve been keeping. Further if you had that computer in any groups or assigned specific permissions to it those are gone because now your computer has a new SID, so the AD doesn’t see it as the same machine anymore. Doing so is kind of a pain because it requires a couple of reboots and the user profile isn’t always reconnected. The classic way to fix this problem is to unjoin and rejoin the domain. These all stem from the same problem and that is that the secure channel between the computer and domain is hosed. The symptoms can be that the computer can’t login when connected to the network, message that the computer account has expired, the domain certificate is invalid, etc. Occasionally a computer will come “disjoined” from the domain.
It’s not that we don’t know AD, it’s that we forget or miss new features. I suggest that everyone join a usergroup and/or a study group. This trick comes to be via my Active Directory study group.