| Task | |
| Steps | |
| Set the local administrative password | At a command prompt, type: |
| Net user administrator * | |
| Join a computer to a domain | 1. At a command prompt, type on one line: |
| Netdom | |
| join %computername% /domain:<domain> /userd:<domain>\username> | |
| /password:* | |
| 2. Restart the computer. | |
| Confirm that the domain has changed | At a command prompt, type: |
| Set | |
| Remove a computer from a domain | At a command prompt, type: |
| Netdom remove | |
| Add a user to the local | At a command prompt, type: |
| Administrators group. | Net localgroup Administrators /add |
| <domain>\<username> | |
| Remove a user from the local | At a command prompt, type: |
| Administrators group | Net localgroup Administrators /delete |
| <domain\username> | |
| Add a user to the local computer | At a command prompt, type: |
| Net user <domain\user name> | |
| /add * | |
| Add a group to the local computer | At a command prompt, type: |
| Net localgroup <group name> | |
| /add | |
| Change the name of a domain-joined | At a command prompt, type: |
| computer | Netdom renamecomputer %computername% |
| /NewName:<new computer name> /userd:<domain\username> /password:* | |
| Confirm the new computer name | At a command prompt, type: |
| Set | |
| Change the name of a computer in a | 1. At a command prompt, type: |
| work group | Netdom |
| renamecomputer <currentcomputername> /NewName:<newcomputername> | |
| 2. Restart the computer. | |
| Disable paging file management | At a command prompt, type: |
| Wmic computersystem where | |
| name=”<computername>” set AutomaticManagedPagefile=False | |
| Configure the paging file | At a command prompt, type: |
| Wmic pagefileset where | |
| name=”<path/filename>” set | |
| InitialSize=<initialsize>,MaximumSize=<maxsize> | |
| Where: | |
| path/filename | |
| is the path to and name of the paging file | |
| initialsize | |
| is the starting size of the paging file in bytes. | |
| maxsize | |
| is the maximum size of the page file in bytes. | |
| Change to a static IP address. | 1. At a command prompt, type: |
| Ipconfig | |
| /all | |
| 2. Record the relevant information or | |
| redirect it to a text file (ipconfig /all >ipconfig.txt). | |
| 3. At a command prompt, type: | |
| Netsh | |
| interface ipv4 show interfaces | |
| 4. Verify that there is an interface list. | |
| 5. At a command prompt, type: | |
| Netsh | |
| interface ipv4 set address name <ID from interface list> source=static | |
| address=<preferred IP address> gateway=<gateway address> | |
| 6. Verify by typing Ipconfig /all at | |
| a command prompt and checking that DHCP enabled is set to No. |