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title: "Error Code: 8557"
slug: "error-code-8557"
updated: 2025-07-10T08:26:44Z
published: 2025-07-10T08:26:44Z
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# Error Code: 8557

**Error**: Domain Join Failed with error (Error Code 8557) "Your computer could not be joined to the domain. You have exceeded the maximum number of computer accounts you can create in this domain. Contact your system administrator to have this limit reset or increased.”

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**Possible Cause:**Due to AD limits on the account’s machine account quota has been reached.

**Possible Fix:** Modify the service account to increase the number of domain joins allowed.

**Ref Articles:**

- [Default-workstation-numbers-join-domain](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/default-workstation-numbers-join-domain)
- [Increase-the-number-of-workstations-a-user-can-join-to-a-domain](https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-dojo/increase-the-number-of-workstations-a-user-can-join-to-a-domain/#:~:text=Locate%20the%20ms-DS-MachineAccountQuota,value%20to%20remove%20the%20limit)