I'm going to work with him on this some more on Monday - we have 8 more machines to do. I'll (dis)confirm the behavior, and let the list know.
Thanks, Kurt On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 14:20, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: > They should call the same API (I can confirm if need be). I have a bunch of > quick and dirty cmdline apps I wrote for some of these tasks that my build > tools call. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [email protected] > > c – 312.731.3132 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 4:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Windows 7 - problems with renaming computer and joining to domain > > The minion was able to add via the powershell script. > > Don't know why, but would like to, he couldn't add the Win7 machine via the > control panel. > > Weird. > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:07, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote: >> Default quota isten machines in 2003 I have qnd rename tool if you >> need it >> >> Brian Desmond from my phone >> >> On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:05 PM, "Kurt Buff" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> We have a Win2k3 SP2 R2 domain. >>> >>> We're getting small number of machines with Win7 Pro pre-installed >>> from a local whitebox vendor (this is a temporary condition, I >>> hope...) >>> >>> I've run into two problems: >>> >>> 1) minion can't join machine to domain manually He's not a Domain >>> Admin, and it says he's exceeded his quota for adding machines. This >>> surprises me, since he doesn't have this issue with XP machines - I >>> long ago added him to a group that is allowed add machines to the >>> domain. My credentials worked. >>> >>> 2) I cruised the Information Super Highway and found that the PS >>> cmdlet rename-computer has been removed from PS. This puts a kink in >>> things, as we want to rename the computer and join it to the domain >>> in the same script. >>> >>> My google-fu is failing me - I can't seem to find any links that >>> address these problems. >>> >>> I'm not going to go down the path of crying about netdom being >>> removed. PowerShell is just fine by me, though the method required to >>> start an elevated instance is a bit annoying. >>> >>> Anyone have some hints for me? >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
