Joining a domain

When I wrote the how-to a few months ago, I forgot to jot down how to join the domain in both Windows 10 and from the command line.

To join an existing domain from Windows 10:

Right click on the Start button
Choose System from the pop up menu
Choose Advanced System Settings from the menu on the left
Choose the Computer Name tab
Click Change
Click Domain, and follow the prompts to enter your username and password


From the command line, for example, from a new test VM:

Open an elevated command prompt, and then type
netdom join machinenamegoeshere /domain:domainnamegoeshere

Build a VMWare Workstation 9 Home / Test Lab

So I’m building a test lab at home.

This post is going to grow to become a directory of the issues, I think, that I post about that over time.

For now, here’s the plan:

Dual Windows Domain Controllers
Separately from the two DC’s, SQL Server 2012
Windows 8 Client PC

…and all on Workstation 9.

I’m building them in order to test SQL 2012 in a domain, of course, because I want to just jump in log in with Windows Authentication to SSAS, and I can’t do that without a domain.

I mean, I think I can – I’ve seen some articles about cobbling things together to do so, but honestly, I don’t really want to. Really.

I want to get as close to “best practices” as I can with this setup, since that’s what I’m expecting the exam(s) to cover.