
To modify Active Directory to allow more (or fewer) machine accounts on the domain, use the Adsiedit tool.

The number of workstations currently owned by a user is calculated by looking at the ms-DS-CreatorSID attribute of machine accounts. Note that users in the Administrators or Domain Administrators groups, and those users who have delegated permissions on containers in Active Directory to create and delete computer accounts, are not restricted by this limitation. This default was implemented to prevent misuse, but can be overridden by an administrator by making a change to an object in Active Directory.

If a user attempts to join an eleventh machine account, the error messages listed in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base Article are displayed:Ģ51335 Domain users cannot join workstation or server to a domain Less Summaryīy default, Windows 2000 allows authenticated users to join ten machine accounts to the domain.

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