JSI Tip 5886. Your computer does NOT join the domain during the mini-Setup portion of Sysprep?
Jerold Schulman
October 31, 2002
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When you try to join the computer to a domain during the min-Setup portion of Sysprep, you receive:
You have entered an invalid password. Would you like to proceed for now and try joining a domain later?
NOTE: The computer may join the domain after the restart and completion of mini-Setup.
The error is generally the result of a network adapter driver problem on the Windows media. Get an updated driver for your NIC.
NOTE: You can use netdom, from the Support Tools, in a script, to join the domain:
netdom join /domain: /userd: /passwordd:
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