How To Join Windows Server 2012 R2 to a Domain

Today we will look at How To Join Windows Server 2012 / R2 to a Domain.

Before you start to join Windows Server 2012 /R2 to a domain, make sure that you can resolve the Active Directory domain name using DNS. Pinging the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) ensures that at least one domain controller (DC) is available to process your domain join request.

To join Windows Server to a domain, follow below steps :

Open the Server Manager, select Local Server in the left pane and click right pane of Server Manager under Properties, click WORKGROUP. In the System Properties dialog on the Computer Name tab, click Change and In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog, click Domain, type the FQDN of your Active Directory domain and click OK:

You will be asked to type the credentials of a username that has the required permission to add computers to the domain. Type the username and password, click OK:

Click OK:

You will be prompted to restart the computer to apply changes, click OK

You will get back to the System Properties window, there is a small notification message that you need to restart your machine so that changes take effect and Click Close:

And click Restart Now to reboot:

After log in you will see your Server successfully joined to domain: