On the About page, select Join a domain under Organization.Press the Start button, then type “ domain“.Set the DNS entry on the client computer to be the server’s IP.So many people get stuck at this point in a virtual test lab. If you can’t ping it by hostname, you are not going to be able to join the client to the domain. In previous articles, we setup a new Windows Server 2016 system, setup a new domain, created all of our OUs, and setup a DHCP server.įirst thing you need to do is verify you can ping the server from the client by pinging the server’s hostname. This article is a continuation of our Server Basics 2016 series and will be covering joining (some say connecting) a Windows 10 client computer to a domain.
I am noticing a lot of people having troubles at this stage of the Server Basics video series. There are a couple really easy things you need to make sure of, and you shouldn’t have any issues joining any client computer to a domain.
