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Change a pc from a workgroup to a domain 

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Question:

We are migrating 200 computers from workgroups to a domain. How can this be done? We want to change the pc's from the workgroup "flood" to the domain "WATER". All input is appreciated.

Answer:

Hmmm. A nunch or registry edits and a reboot. But I don't have a list of the registry edits required.
  1. Someone might have a list, of you can do it the hard way by going to http://www.sysinternals.com and getting the free registry monitor and adding a domain manually and watching what gets set in the registry before the reboot, then replicate that with Winbatch and reboot...

  2. From another user:

    "I've tried Sysinternals Registry monitor & find regsnap http://www.webdon.com/regsnap/default.asp easier.

    Sysinternals by default logs EVERY registry access while you have it active. There will be a LOT of things that you don't care about & you have to really look for the stuff you want.

    With RegSnap you can do a before & after snapshot and compare them. MUCH easier and it'll watch your ini files too. 

Article ID:   W15191