Tips & Tricks for IT
How do i: Rejoin computer to the same account?
Pet hate of mine is creation of new computer accounts (ahhh) for machines that have been reimaged, rejoining the same account is actually really simple!
- Open up AD Users & Computers
- Find your computer account
- Right click an hit “Reset”
- Join the computer to the domain with the old account.
Bam, computers back on the domain with the same name and groups! Simple
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