Issue while joining vm to a domain using invoke-vmscript

Question

I am trying to join a vm to a domain. Here is the script:

Invoke-VMScript -vm $hostName -GuestUser $VMLocalUser -GuestPassword $VMLocalPWord -ScriptType Powershell "Add-Computer -ComputerName $hostName -LocalCredential $VMLocalCredential -DomainName $domainName -Credential $VMLocalCredential -Restart -Force"

While executing the script freezes at 0% completion. Please let me know if am doing something wrong.

Answer 1

Running that add-computer command on the machine, I had trouble getting the ComputerName command to recognise which lead me to this

Issue Adding PC to domain and changing name at the same time

Alternatively use netdom.

Invoke-VMScript -VM $vmname -GuestUser $VMLocalUser -GuestPassword $VMLocalPWord -ScriptType Powershell "netdom join /d:mywork.domain computername /userd:domainaccount /passwordd:pwd"