Domain Join Debug Log

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Submitted by CondorMan on 18 June, 2008 - 15:12.

If you've ever had a domain join fail, you can understand how frustrating it can be to troubleshoot. There is a log file that will make it much easier to figure out what is wrong.

Open the file C:\WINDOWS\Debug\NetSetup.log.
Go to the very bottom of the file and find the last "NetpDoDomainJoin: status:"
If it is not 0x0, then the domain join failed and the code listed instead of 0x0 is the reason it failed.
Now, look at each previous line in the file until you come across the last line in the file that returned the same failure code as your Domain Join.
You have found the step of the domain join that failed and the reason it failed.