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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Creating computer objects

When a desktop computer or member server is joined to a domain, it will create a computer object in AD.

This computer object can be created before being added to the domain. This will not add the device to the domain, but it can be used with offline domain joins and RODC domain joins.

In order to create a computer object, we can use the New-ADComputer cmdlet. To view the complete syntax of the command, use this:

Get-Command New-ADComputer -Syntax

The attribute you need to create a computer object is -Name:

New-ADComputer -Name "REBEL-PC-01" -SamAccountName "REBEL-PC-01" -Path "OU=Computers,OU=Europe,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com"

In the preceding example, the command will create the REBEL-PC01 computer object in the OU=Computers,OU=Europe,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com OU. If you do not define the path, it will create the object under the default computer container, CN=Computers, DC=rebeladmin, DC=com.

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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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