Windows 2000 RIS deploying Windows 2003 - Domain Join

[Gussie Finknottle]

Hi,

We're using Windows 2000 SP4 RIS to deploy a CD based image of Windows
2003.

Our Windows 2000 image, deployed by the same infrastructure of Windows
2000 RIS servers, uses the following SIF entries to join a Windows
2000 machine to our domain…:
[Identification]
CreateComputerAccountInDomain=No
DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes
JoinDomain=%MACHINEDOMAIN%

…but we're finding that the use of the undocumented [?]
'DoOldStyleDomainJoin' doesn't appear to be working [for us] when
deploying Windows 2003.

…we've tried modifying the SIF as follows…:

[Identification]
JoinDomain=Domain_name
DomainAdmin = Name_of_account_with_appropriate_permissions
DomainAdminPassword =
Password_of_account_with_appropriate_permissions

… which works… but we're puzzled as to why we seemingly must take this
route as the text based OSCML elements of RIS will have already
created a machine account.

Any thoughts? Is anyone else trying to do this?

Thanks in anticipation,

G.

 

[Barry]

Hi,

We're using Windows 2000 SP4 RIS to deploy a CD based image of Windows
2003.

Our Windows 2000 image, deployed by the same infrastructure of Windows
2000 RIS servers, uses the following SIF entries to join a Windows
2000 machine to our domain.:
[Identification]
CreateComputerAccountInDomain=No
DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes
JoinDomain=%MACHINEDOMAIN%

.but we're finding that the use of the undocumented [?]
'DoOldStyleDomainJoin' doesn't appear to be working [for us] when
deploying Windows 2003.

.we've tried modifying the SIF as follows.:

[Identification]
JoinDomain=Domain_name
DomainAdmin = Name_of_account_with_appropriate_permissions
DomainAdminPassword =
Password_of_account_with_appropriate_permissions

. which works. but we're puzzled as to why we seemingly must take this
route as the text based OSCML elements of RIS will have already
created a machine account.

Any thoughts? Is anyone else trying to do this?

Thanks in anticipation,

G.

Hmm, I have

[UserData]
FullName=Administrator
ComputerName = %MACHINENAME%
Orgname =blah"
PrductID="xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

[Identification]
JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN%
CreateComputerAccountInDomain = No
DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes

which seems to work fine for me with RIS (on a 2k server mind)