From the course: Advanced PowerShell: Automating Active Directory Administration

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Managing computers

Managing computers

- [Narrator] We can create a new computer in Active Directory and then join that computer to Active Directory from the client. Or, we can join a computer to Active Directory from the client itself, and then we'll auto-create the account in Active Directory. In this demo, I'm going to create the account in Active Directory, because this allows me to set up additional parameters prior to the computer joining the domain. And the first computer I'm going to add is going to be called Client02. So, I'm going to paste in the command, and it's a very simple cmdlet. It's just New-Computer-Name, followed by the name of that particular computer. I'm going to put that computer in quotes, so you see that lights up in blue, which is exactly what I want. So, even if you don't have any spaces in between characters, it's still a good idea to put them in quotes, so PowerShell and Active Directory understand what it is you're trying to…

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