Adding the Survivable Branch Appliance to Active Directory

Each Survivable Branch Appliance deployed needs to have a computer account in Active Directory defined before being placed in operation. The intent of this step is that the technician in a branch site will not have rights to join a server to the Active Directory domain.

Follow these when deploying only a Survivable Branch Appliance:

1. Log on to a computer with the Active Directory Domain Services role administration tools installed.

2. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.

3. Right-click an organizational unit, select New, and select Computer.

4. Enter a Computer Name for the Survivable Branch Appliance. This is just the hostname, not the fully qualified domain name.

5. Under User or Group, click the Change button.

6. Enter RTCUniversalSBATechnicians, and then click OK.

7. Click OK.