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How to Join Windows 7 Professional to Domain

This tutorial describes the steps that need to be taken to join a Windows 7 desktop to a Windows domain.

Join a Windows Domain

Step 1: Right-click the computer icon located on the bottom right corner of the task bar. Then click Open Network and Sharing Center

 

Step 2: Click Local Area Connection

 

Step 3: Click Properties

 

Step 4: Select Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and click Properties

 

Step 5: Provide correct IP address and subnet mask to this machine. Provide correct DNS Server IP of domain controller in Preferred DNS server text field. When done click OK

 

Step 6: Open the command prompt and ping your domain. Make sure that there are 0% packet loss and the domain is resolved successfully

 

Step 7: Click Start icon and scroll to 'computer'.  Right click Computer and scroll to Properties and click it .

Step 8: Click Change settings

 

Step 9: Click Change

 

Step 10: Provide domain name in domain text field and click OK

 

Step 11: You will be prompted to provide a credential of an account having permission to join a client machine to this domain

Step 12:  A welcome window appears. Click OK

 

Step 13: Restart your machine so that changes can take effect. Click OK

 

Step 14: Click Close

 

Step 15: Click Restart Now

 

Conclusion

Congratulations on joining windows 7 Professional to a domain. Once your machine has been restarted, login with your user name and password provided by domain administrator. All domain policies will be applied on your machine and you will be centrally administered.

Categories: Windows Windows 7
Karim Buzdar: About the Author: Karim Buzdar holds a degree in telecommunication engineering and holds several sysadmin certifications. As an IT engineer and technical author, he writes for various websites.
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