Domain

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Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista

Domain specifies the name of the domain used for an account authentication. Domain is used to authenticate an account before the computer can be joined to a domain during Windows® Setup.

Values

Domain_name

Specifies the name of the domain used to authenticate an account. Domain_name is a string. The value may be either a fully qualified DNS domain name or a NetBIOS domain name.

If a value for Domain is not specified, Username must use the user principal name (UPN) format (user@fully-qualified-DNS-domain), NetBIOS-domain\username format, or the fully-qualified-DNS-domain\username format.

This string type does not support empty elements. Do not create an empty value for this setting.

Valid Passes

specialize

Parent Hierarchy

Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin | Identification | Credentials | Domain

Applies To

For a list of the supported Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin.

XML Example

The following XML output shows how to set the identification credentials.

<Identification>
   <Credentials>
      <Domain>fabrikam.com</Domain>
      <Password>MyPassword</Password>
      <Username>MyUserName</Username>
   </Credentials>
   <JoinDomain>fabrikam.com</JoinDomain>
   <MachinePassword>ComputerPassword</MachinePassword>
</Identification>

See Also

Concepts

Credentials