Can we produce a VM that is joined to the domain? What are the issues related to this?

Updated: Without storing a clear text password with the ability to join the domains to the machine or creating separate images for each student or having each student go through the entire RIS process (hours) from within a VM, joining machines to the domain is not an option at this time.

Not that I have found.  Because of the SID issues, we would need to uniquely generate each new VM for the students.  If we distribute them on a flash drive, then perhaps we could do this, but the SID needs to be changed with SYSPREP or the built in VMware tool before the machine is joined to the WIN.MIT.EDU domain and assigned to the right container.

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