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In our lab, the domain name is set to firewall.local.

In the next window, select the Domain: option under the Member of section and type the company's domain name.

Select the Computer Name tab and then click on the Change… button to add this computer to the domain. The System Properties dialog box will open. Next, click Advanced system settings option in the upper left corner. Now, to add the workstation to the domain, open the System Properties of FW-CL1 by right-clicking in the This PC icon and selecting properties: It is important that any workstation needing to join a Domain, has its DNS server configured with the Domain Controller's IP address to ensure proper DNS resolution of the Domain: FW-CL1 is already installed with Windows 8.1 operating system and configured with an IP address 192.168.1.10 and a DNS server set to 192.168.1.1, which is the domain controller. Our client workstation, FW-CL1, needs to join the Firewall.local domain. The article can be considered an extention to our Windows 2012 Server article covering Active Directory & Domain Controller installation. In this article, we will show how to add a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 client to a Windows Domain / Active Directory.