Windows 7 can be added to domains offline!

I have been wait­ing for this to hap­pen for twelve years, ever since my first multiple-thousand-seat Win­dows desktop rol­lout — Win­dows 7 (and Win­dows Server 2008 R2) can be added to domains without phys­ic­ally being con­nec­ted to that domain over a network

This is done with a new com­mand — djoin.exe — added into these products. It’s used (on an exist­ing machine in the domain) to gen­er­ate a block of inform­a­tion in a file, that can be used on another machine to auto­mat­ic­ally join the domain without being con­nec­ted at that time.

This is fant­ast­ic­ally use­ful for any­one per­form­ing big cor­por­ate rol­louts – where it’s not always pos­sible to build the machines in situ. Any con­sultancy work­ing on a build-and-customise desktop pro­ject for a cli­ent is going to abso­lutely love this.

Found on bink.nu.