+1 It also worked for me in the past: remove from domain - no reboot - even in the same logon session rejoin the domain - then reboot
Regards, Rami From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Rejoin Computer to Domain Without Removing I wind up having to remove / rejoin machines to our domain occasionally that have been stored, etc., and get purged from the directory. While the unjoin process will prompt you for a reboot, I've not had any ill effects from skipping it and just immediately doing the rejoin. The research I've done in the past seemed to indicate that the reboot requirement was a holdover from the server code that's common across the server and workstation platforms, but workstations were normally not a problem. I'm not saying this is the "supported" method, but I've not run into any problems with doing it over the last few years. As always, YMMV, make a backup, enter at your own risk, yada yada. :) -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Sullivan Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 6:02 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Rejoin Computer to Domain Without Removing I had looked into the netdom switches in the past and I didn't think there was anything that would do it, but there is a way. I was able to remove the machine using the /force switch and then join it without the reboot in the middle. Ha ha. I just tried the equivalent in the GUI and that also succeeded! All of this time I've been joining a workgroup, rebooting, joining the domain, rebooting again. In my scenario, the computer object didn't exist. It may be different when the object does exist. But in that case, it seems like you should just be able to delete the computer object first and it would amount to the same thing. Charlie Sullivan Sr. Windows Systems Administrator Boston College 197 Foster St. Room 367 Brighton, MA 02135 617-552-4318 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rankin, James R Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 4:47 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Rejoin Computer to Domain Without Removing Netdom command? Sent from my (new!) BlackBerry, which may make me an antiques dealer, but it's reliable as hell for email delivery :-) ________________________________ From: Charles Sullivan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sender: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:44:39 +0000 To: [email protected]<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]%[email protected]>> ReplyTo: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Rejoin Computer to Domain Without Removing Is there a way I can rejoin a computer to the domain without first removing it? This would be for a scenario where the computer object has been removed, or something similar to that. I know there's likely no way to avoid one reboot, but I would rather not have to do two of them. Also, because it would most likely be in a CLI, I could save time by scripting it. Charlie Sullivan Sr. Windows Systems Administrator
