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This is loosely based off the Google Cloud documentation here, with some of my experiences in getting this to work in my lab environment. This article will describe a similar method for joining your new instances to an Active Directory domain hosted or extended to a Google Cloud environment. They did this using stored admin credentials and some combination of virtual machine agents and/or startup scripts. There are a few Windows specific processes that administrators have to manage on a daily basis - one in particular is making sure that a new Windows instance in the Cloud is joined to their Active Directory domain.Īs enterprises moved from physical machines to virtual, the domain join process which was mostly manual in the physical world was eventually replaced by VMware or Hyper-V services that automatically rename a Windows instance and join it to AD. With the growing prevalence of cloud in general, specifically the Google Cloud Platform, more and more enterprises are expanding or migrating their Windows environments to Google Cloud. Administrators can set these changes up once and have them apply to all computers, even new ones they set up later.Automatic join of Windows machines to an AD domain in Google Cloud Platform

This is just a small sampling of what Group Policy allows.

Map a printer to new computers automatically.

Redirect a certain folder to use one on the server instead.

Stop users from changing internet connection options.

For example, Group Policy makes all the following practices easy to apply: Using the domain controller, administrators can configure all sorts of security and use policies for all computers. We've discussed how Group Policy is useful on your own PC, but it's really intended for corporate use.

While this might work for tiny company, it's not a scalable approach and would quickly become unmanageable.Īlong with Active Directory's user management, joining computers to a domain allows you to use Group Policy. This means configuring security settings, installing software, and managing user accounts by hand.

Without a domain, IT staff would have to individually manage each computer in a company. The biggest advantage of domains is ease of controlling many computers at once. Domain Control and Group Policy in Windows