Cached credentials for offline domain join and login without local access to the domain controller

A computing device, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:
• in response to a request for a virtual machine received from a client computing device,
• perform a domain join of the virtual machine with an active directory service on a local network;
• capture a post-domain-join snapshot of the virtual machine and produce a delta that contains one or more changes to the virtual machine that were made during the domain join;
• and
• transmit the delta to the client computing device to be applied to a copy of the virtual machine executed on the client computing device.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, the instructions when executed by one or more processors causing the one or more processors to execute the operations of:

• in response to a request for a virtual machine received from a client computing device,
• performing a domain join of the virtual machine with an active directory service on a local network;
• capturing a post-domain-join snapshot of the virtual machine and producing a delta that contains one or more changes to the virtual machine that were made during the domain join;
• and
• transmitting the delta to the client computing device to be applied to a copy of the virtual machine executed on the client computing device.