I set him up with the add machine to domain policy and he quickly got to the 10 machine limit. He needs to be able add as many machines to the domain as time goes on. He is not allowed admin ...

Under "Location" in the dialog the domain is not available. <BR><BR>After much Googling I have only been able to uncover that you need to have Administrative rights on the machine to add Domain Users.

I ran into an interesting problem today. Basically, a whole bunch of machine accounts got deleted from a domain. Because the machine accounts where spread across numerous OUs, the sheer numbers ...

Now, you can retry to promote the machine as Domain Controller using the promotion credentials in domain\user format this time. Additional notes. The table below (sourced from Microsoft) ...