Domain join a vm to DC/AD in Azure

Refer to Install AD Forest + DC in Azure Only in ARM (aka v2) in 30 min how to set up the primary DC/AD.

There are two ways that you can add a vm to a domain:

1.       Join the domain while provisioning the vm

          "properties": {

            "publisher": "Microsoft.Powershell",

            "type": "DSC",

            "typeHandlerVersion": "2.8",

            "settings": {

              "ModulesUrl": "[concat(parameters('assetLocation'),'Configuration.zip')]",

              "ConfigurationFunction": "Configuration.ps1\\DomainJoin",

              "Properties": {

                "DomainName": "[parameters('domainName')]",

                "AdminCreds": {

                  "UserName": "[parameters('adminUsername')]",

                  "Password": "PrivateSettingsRef:adminPassword"

                }

              }

            },

            "protectedSettings": {

              "Items": {

                "adminPassword": "[parameters('adminPassword')]"

              }

            }

          }

        }

2.       Spin a vm and then domain join

a.       Through ARM template: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/201-vm-domain-join/

b.       Manually J open up a computer management and it to the domain.

Potential problem:

If the vm doesn’t seem the DNS in approach 1:

1.)    Add the DNS to the vnet

2.)    If still doesn’t solve the problem, fall back to approach #2.