Join a Windows domain or workgroup

Windows Build Plans also provide the ability to join a provisioned machine into a Windows Domain or Workgroup. To do this, use the step called: Inject Windows Domain or Workgroup Personalization Settings.

To use this step and join the machine to a Windows Domain, you must use the following custom attributes:

• DomainName: the name of the domain that you want the server to join.
• DomainUser: the user name which has the permissions to add the server to a domain.
• DomainPassword: the password of the DomainUser.

To join the server to a Workgroup, you must use only one custom attribute:

• WorkGroup: the workgroup name.

To use this step in new Build Plans, do the following:

• Ensure that this step is added after theConfigure Windows Default Unattend.xml, Inject Required Unattend.xml Settings and Inject Personalization Settings steps.
• Ensure that this step is added before the Run Windows Setup step.
• Use Custom Attributes, if necessary.