You Have Exceeded the Maximum Number of Computer Accounts - Windows and Active Directory
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How do you increase the limit of devices that a user can join to a domain? You might need to do this when you get this error:
The following error occurred attempting to join the domain xxx You computer could not be joined to the domain, You have exceeded the maximum number of computer accounts you are allowed to create in this domain. Contact your system| administrator to have this limit reset or increased.
By default this is set to just ten for members of the Authenticated Users group. It is easy to change (or just add computers with an admin account.)
To increase this limit, open the ADSI Edit (Active Directory Service Interfaces Editor) tool which you can find in the list of tools in Server Manager.
Find your domain and right click and open properties. In the list of properties find ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota which is set to 10. Edit this to whatever makes sense for you. Voila.
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@scottalanmiller This is for a standard user without any Domain Admin Privileges. I am assuming this is for a Technician joining computers that no one wants to have admin permissions.
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@dbeato said in You Have Exceeded the Maximum Number of Computer Accounts - Windows and Active Directory:
@scottalanmiller This is for a standard user without any Domain Admin Privileges. I am assuming this is for a Technician joining computers that no one wants to have admin permissions.
That would be an example case. Yes.
