Join new systems to a Domain

[tgignac]

Hello there
I am about to receive 50+ new dell systems and am in the process of automating application installs for each of them with an autorun cd.

I need a way to join each of these systems to my domain during this setup as easily as possible. I was wondering if there was a way to open the START-> Control Panel -> System -> Computer Name -> Change -> Computer Name Changes from a command line and ask for the computer name?

I'm not much of a scripter but understand that there is a way to join a computer to the domain using netdom.exe. It would be nice if I could script this and have only one dialog ask for the computername and then have everything else scripted (i.e. username, password, and domain)

Any help or tools would be great!

Thanks

 

[linney]

Just an example of the Netdom join command.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...+domain+automatically&rnum=4#5ca37ba19536fc2c

Automating the creation of computer accounts

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315273/EN-US/