Re: Default domain permissions on who can join a workstation to the domain

The Active Directory property your concerned with is "ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota".  The easy way to modify this is to use the 2000 Support Tools included ADSIedit.msc; you can browse to your "DC=Your-Domain-Name,DC=com", right click properties, inspect (default is '10'), and then set the value.


Reference:
"Domain Users Cannot Join Workstations or Server to a Domain"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251335/EN-US/


You may want to check out O'Reilly's "Active Directory Cookbook"
http://www.rallenhome.com/books/adcookbook/src/08.09-change_computer_quota.vbs.txt

There's a script for limiting # of computers each user may join using perl or vbs if your going to develop some kind of 'hardening' procedure.


Liam Randall
Network Engineer

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