Adding CIS Hardened Image to Domain
Product Name
CIS Hardened Images® (AWS)
Product Version
All
Date
Oct 14, 2020
Problem
I am having an issue joining a Level 1 Windows Server CIS Hardened Image to our Windows Domain
Solution
In our testing, we were able to successfully join a CIS Windows Server 2016 L1 image to a domain and update the computer and user policies without issue. We would recommend blocking inheritance on the OU the server is in then test again. This will prevent from domain wide policies being applied to the instance that may be conflicting with locally set policies.
Please note, CIS Hardened Images are configured using local group policy. If your intention is to use these images in a domain environment where policies are managed globally, the majority of our security settings may be changed and managed by your domain policies.