Your network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com.
The forest contains a domain controller named DC1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and a member server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard.
You have a computer named Computer1 that runs Windows 7. Computer1 is not connected to the network.
You need to join Computer1 to the contoso.com domain.
What should you do?
To answer, move the appropriate actions from the Possible Actions list to the Necessary Actions area and arrange them in the correct order.
Build List and Reorder:
Correct Answer:
Explanation/Reference:
Reference 1:
MS Press – Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-640) (2nd Edition, July 2012)
pages 217, 218
Offline Domain Join
Offline domain join is also useful when a computer is deployed in a lab or other disconnected environment. When the computer is connected to the domain network and started for the first time, it will already be a member of the domain. This also helps to ensure that Group Policy settings are applied at the first startup.
Four major steps are required to join a computer to the domain by using offline domain join:
1. Log on to a computer in the domain that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7 with an account that has permissions to join computers to the domain.
2. Use the DJoin command to provision a computer for offline domain join. This step prepopulates Active Directory with the information that Active Directory needs to join the computer to the domain, and exports the information called a blob to a text file.
3. At the offline computer that you want to join the domain use DJoin to import the blob into the Windows directory.
4. When you start or restart the computer, it will be a member of the domain.
Reference 2:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/offline-domain-join-djoin-step-by-step.aspx
Performing an offline domain join using different physical computers
To perform an offline domain join using physical computers, you can complete the following steps. The best practice in this case is to have one domain controller, one domain-joined computer to use as a provisioning server, and one client computer that you want to join to the domain.
1. On the provisioning server, open an elevated command prompt.
2. Type the following command to provision the computer account:
djoin /provision /domain <domain to be joined> /machine <name of the
destination computer> /savefile blob.txt
3. Copy the blob.txt file to the client computer.
4. On the client computer, open an elevated command prompt, and then type the following command to request the domain join:
djoin /requestODJ /loadfile blob.txt /windowspath %SystemRoot% /localos
5. Reboot the client computer. The computer will be joined to the domain.
