question regaring creating computer object in active directory

[dualblade]

up until now, my firm has been joining computers to the domain, which creates the computer object for you. we'd like to change this to pre-creating the computer object so the object can be moved into the correct security group before the computer joins the domain. i tried to create the computer object first and then join the domain as that computer name, but i got an error that said the computer name already exists and it was going to join the domain as the old name. is there a policy for doing this right? how does active directory know that the computer i'm joining with is the one i want coupled with the computer account i've already created?

 

[gimp]

how many times have you tried this?
and are you changing the name, rebooting, then joining the domain?

we're in the process of migrating departments over to a new domain, and have came across a few issues.

When computer accounts are manually created, I've came across a few where I could not join that computer to the new domain, without first deleting and recreating the computer object manually. Otherwise I got an "Access Denied" error message.

There should be no problem doing this, though.