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jcollum
Asked: 2015-01-14 17:58:53 +0800 CST

can I script leaving/joining a domain (and not have to reboot)?

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I've been getting this message a lot lately:

The Security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship

I'm building a few Windows VMs. The fix is to leave the domain and then rejoin it. It's a bit labor intensive though... is there any way to do this via script and not have to reboot in the middle? Doing it the manual way takes about 3-5 mins.

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  1. No, you cannot avoid the reboot. You can script the joining and disjoining of a domain, but you're solving the wrong problem.

    The proper approach is not to clone domain-joined VMs in the first place. Create a template of a VM that is in a workgroup, rather than a domain, then rename and domain-join it once it's finished cloning/deploying from a template.

    And, as noted by Big Chris in the comments below, don't forget to sysprep, provided you want things like Windows Update and SCCM to work properly.

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