[windows2000] Re: Computer Accounts
- From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:38:19 +0100
> From: "Neil Bullock" <n.bullock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [windows2000] Computer Accounts
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:53:56 +0100
>
> Hello,
>
> We're currently upgrading 20 machines to run XP Pro. To join
> them to our (2000 native) domain, we right-clicked on My
> Computer, then on Properties, then Computer Name, and Change
> (rather than use the NEtwork ID Wizard thing). Even though
> I've already created computer accounts for the computers in
> the correct OU,
When you say "computer accounts" - do you actually mean specific
computer accounts?
Or created computer objects via ADU&C gui?
Bear with me if I'm telling you something you already know, but computer
*accounts* named the same as the object, but with a '$' appended to the
end.
> I still find new accounts being created in
> the Computers container. Should this be happening? Strange
> thing is - they seem to be using the accounts I created,
> rather than the ones they created themselves (I deleted the
> original accounts and the machines couldn't log on any more ;)
Well I wrote a HTA a few years back, for our PC maintainers (uses
opendsobject, so they can run with elevated privileges whilst within the
HTA), and that's for precreating (if need be) computer objects in
specific OUs - or if the computer object / account already exists,
allows them to move it (as well as other stuff like set the location
field (from a list of OU names, grabbed from AD) and group membership
for the PC.
And this has always worked OK for built, or rebuilt PCs to pick up on
the precreated computer objects / accounts.
Neil
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