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In many networks DHCP won’t populate everything you need. One of the big roadblocks to joining Active Directory is DNS settings.

This guide will walk you through the basic steps to join Active Directory without having to resort to using third party software. In most corporate environments installing third party software is frowned upon due to licensing and security considerations so I was determined to get the native Mac OS X tools to work. When I started researching the topic I saw a whole lot of advice to install third party software to join a Mac to Active Directory.

High Sierra and Mojave now require a Active Directory functional level of Windows Server 2008 or later and are still pretty tricky to get to join it. Joining a Mac to Active Directory has continued to get more and more difficult over the years.