Windows 10: Joining a virtual machine to a domain?

Hi everybody. Long backstory, but I work in IT at a small school system. We need to share a video camera resource with local law enforcement, so we were trying to port forward on our Meraki network to an on-premises machine we have that runs a virtual machine. It's just a windows 10 pro machine with a virtual machine running in Hyper-V. So, no Windows Server official environment. Our reasoning was that it would mitigate the horrific risk to our network to just use a virtual machine as a server with RDG policies and CAP and RAP. I thought we had everything set up the way it needed to be, but we

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UnattendedJoin error: failed to find the domain data (0x6e)

Thanks for the suggestion! I don't want to add a domain account, as this is a generic unattended install that will be used for all company machines. Do you think it's possible that the computer would join the domain if, instead of using UnattendedJoin in specialize, I used your steps but left out the specific account?

The other thing I was thinking was to use a generic account to allow the domain join during the specialize step. I added a machine password in the UnattendedJoin component, and instead of getting the error listed above, I got an authentication error, which makes me think I could probably do a secure join instead of the unsecure join.

Thoughts?

 

Join a machine to domain with an existing computer name without notification?

As far as i remember from my last job, when you are trying to join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name, you should receive a notification and are not allowed to do that.

In this new company, it seems, when you join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name, you are allowed to do that, And that will destroy the relationship of the other machine and domain.

May i know is there a setting i can change to enable the notification when people trying to join a machine to a domain with an existing computer name?

Thanks!

 

How to reserve Windows 10 for a non-domain joined PC (but perhaps fomerly domain joined)

My reservation icon for Windows 10 has not appeared. After ensuring i have all outstanding Windows updates, and run the script that runs scheduled tasks, the icon still doesn't appear.

Then there was the hint from
KB3081048:

> The "Get Windows 10" app doesn’t appear in Windows 7 or 8.1

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> If your device is has been connected to a domain it may be blocked from the upgrade reservation.

It is entirely possible that for 2 or 3 minutes two or three years ago, my machine
was joined to a domain.

• What registry key is the upgrade advisor mistakenly using to determine if a machine is joined to a domain?
• How do i check if a machine was previously joined to a domain?
• How do i unjoin a non-domain joined machine from a domain?
• How do reserve a copy of Windows 10 for a non-domain joined PC?

Bonus Chatter: It's a Surface Pro 3

I tried using the
Media Creation Tool, but it fails with a non-descript error:



How do i upgrade to Windows 10 now that it is released?