Optanik Domain gives you your own Active Directory domain, hosted by Optanik and reachable only over your workspace's private network. You only need it if your computers aren't already in a domain.
Who can use Optanik Domain
Optanik Domain is available on paid workspaces with at least five paid endpoints. Windows Pro PCs, Macs and Linux machines can join it, and their local accounts keep working. Computers already in your own domain or in Microsoft Entra are never moved.
Join computers to the Optanik Domain
Once the domain exists, tick computers in the table and join them, or join a whole group at once. After joining, Windows also honors the policies it only applies on domain-joined PCs.
Add private names with Optanik DNS
Optanik DNS gives your devices private names, like nas.office.lan, answered by your domain controller over the Optanik Network. It's set up for you when you create the domain, and you can add your own zones.
Add Optanik Domain Users
Domain Users is where you add the people on the domain, along with groups and password policy. Once your PCs are joined, any of these users can sign in to any joined computer. Printers and mapped drives can be deployed to domain users and groups, so they follow the person to any domain PC.
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