Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Domain Users Cannot Join Workstation or Server to a Domain

In Windows Server 2008 Domain users can join 10 workstation or server to a Domain. This means that any user who logs on to the domain as a User and is authenticated can add workstations or server to the domain without needing administration privileges. So user has the permission to join 10 workstation to a domain by default. To change this permission please follow below screen shots.




Go to Start > Administrative Tools > ADSI Edit


Right Click and click on connect to....

Just click on OK.


Right Click on and go to properties


Select ms-DS-MachineAccountsQuota 10.

Click on Edit.


Convert it to 0

Click on Apply & OK.
Now other Domain user will not be able to add workstation to a domain.

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