3.1 Domain-Join Examples

This section contains a set of examples that illustrate the activity of the Active Directory system when a client computer is joined to a domain. The following types of examples are covered in this section:

• Locating a domain controller

• Joining a domain

• Unjoining from a domain

A key aspect of these examples is that multiple protocols, such as LDAP and SAMR, can be used to affect the same state change such as provisioning a user. After that state change is completed, any protocol that provides access to that state, not just the protocol that originally created the state, can be used to further modify that state. For example, a user that was created by using the SAMR protocol can have his or her password changed by using LDAP.