Adding a computer to a domain with Powershell

If you have to add lots of computers to a domain, (after launching sysprepped images for example, that already have their new computername), then the following script might come in handy, and save you some password typing.

This is a shortcut, of course, and a slight security trade off.
If you are not comfortable copy-pasting your password into powershell windows as cleartext, don't use the script!

$password="XXXXX"|ConvertTo-SecureString -asplaintext -force $username = "DOMAINNAME\USERNAME" $credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username, $password) $computername=$env:Computername Add-Computer -DomainName "domainName.local" -Credential $credential -ComputerName $Computername -Restart