Join domain without local admin rights.

[jorgenhjartenflo]

Hello,
1. Your machine are in a workgroup.
2. You are are not member of administrators on the local machine, you are now not able to Join a domain ...

How can you give a group (power users, for instance) this administrative right, without being local administrator ?

There are no problems to assign a domain account for this operation, it´s the problems before this option appear. You don´t have the option to do the operation.

 

[bcastner]

You would use gpedit.msc or add Power Users to Administrators as administrator, or Run As option as a power user.

Without a local administrator to change policy settings, or a run as with local admin credentials it cannot be done.

As Microsoft says, "This is by design."

 

[wolluf]

jorgenhjartenflo,

Are you trying to give a local user/group the ability to join a domain? I don't think that can be done - has to be a domain user/group.

 

[whitetc]

It should display a dialog box prompting for someone with Domain rights to allow the joining of a domain. Simply have the administrator enter his/her userid and password, and it will then join the domain..