Apparently administrators can join the machine to the domain without a reboot according to this article:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/offline-domain-join-djoin-step-by-step%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
I am sure there are downside of joining a domain without a reboot otherwise Microsoft would be using this method of joining the machines to the domain. Does anyone know about any downside of using this method to join machines to the domain?
djoin
command.