Device won't join the domain during OSD TS

[anyweb]

how many characters do you have in the computername ? can you share the smsts.log with me ?

[fj40ratt]

The computer name has 8 characters.  I won't be able to get a smsts.log file to you until Monday.  I have people imaging this week so I can't test a password change until they are finished.

[anyweb]

ok thanks

are there any odd ascii characters in that password ? can you please share a screenshot of your join domain step, i've contacted Microsoft PG and they don't believe there's any restrictions on password length, the join domain step should even accept 500 characters...

i definitely need the log file from a failing domain join to get more understanding of this

[fj40ratt]

Will try to get that info to you sometime today or tomorrow.  Attempting another password change today.

[fj40ratt]

Update: New 15 character password that utilized all 4 of the complexity rules in AD worked successfully.  The previous attempts that were failing were only matching 3 of the 4 requirements which should have still worked since the password rule states you must have at least 3 of the 4.  Really odd.  Thanks for the input and willingness to help test everyone.

[fj40ratt]

Jumped the gun.  The new password works for one of my task sequences but not for any of my other TS's including any new from scratch TS's.  This is crazy.

[anyweb]

are you copy/pasting the step ? if so the password has to be re-entered...

[fj40ratt]

I've tried both creating a TS from scratch and copying from another TS.  Neither has been successful.  I even tried just making it a simple 8 character password containing nothing but letters with no luck.  Crazy thing is that when I verify the account and password connection to the OU within the TS it verifies just fine and that same account and password will manually join a device to the domain successfully.  Might be time to get Microsoft involved.

[anyweb]

zip up the logs please and include the netsetup.log from %windir%\debug