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Joining a new workstation to a domain using AD puts the workstation into the main computer container by default.




Well, thats true when joining a machine using NETDOM on NT4, the Win2K and above version of NETDOM does allow you to join directly into an OU. We probably would have done it this way if we could (but we couldn't).

The other thing is, we wanted to fully automated our NT4 migration. Since we didn't have an inventory of machines (and didn't want to do one), our machines just magically "pop" into AD, as they are migrated. No need to have technicians pre-create accounts (and maybe screwing things up). No need to have our AD administrators on "stand-by" 7/24 ... we didn't have that luxury anyways.

-Shawn