Vista - Can any version of Vista connect to a domain..

Hi,

We wonder if workstations with even the 'cheapest' versions of Vista can
log in to a corporate network domain controller and be a 'normal' member
of the domain, controlled by GPOs etc.

Thanks for a quick reply or comment on this

regards

jake

No. None of the Home varieties support domain operation.

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"Jake" <jake44@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We wonder if workstations with even the 'cheapest' versions of Vista can
> log in to a corporate network domain controller and be a 'normal' member
> of the domain, controlled by GPOs etc.
>
> Thanks for a quick reply or comment on this
>
> regards
>
> jake

In message <u8mks6wXHHA.1220@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl> Jake
<jake44@gmail.com> wrote:

>We wonder if workstations with even the 'cheapest' versions of Vista can
>log in to a corporate network domain controller and be a 'normal' member
>of the domain, controlled by GPOs etc.
>
>Thanks for a quick reply or comment on this

Your choices are Business or Ultimate (Or Enterprise, obviously)
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Insert something clever here.

While you can't join or be a member of a domain that doesn't mean you can't
authenticate to one (which for practical purposes is the same thing). You
can cache credentials on a machine that isn't joined to the domain which
allows it to access domain based resources. About the only thing that
doesn't work is you can't "search" the domain for available resources (like
printers).

J

"DevilsPGD" <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote in message
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> In message <u8mks6wXHHA.1220@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl> Jake
> <jake44@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>We wonder if workstations with even the 'cheapest' versions of Vista can
>>log in to a corporate network domain controller and be a 'normal' member
>>of the domain, controlled by GPOs etc.
>>
>>Thanks for a quick reply or comment on this
>
> Your choices are Business or Ultimate (Or Enterprise, obviously)
> --
> Insert something clever here.

In message <8577B170-3E90-412C-A8D0-94EE67AA4278@microsoft.com> "Joe
Guidera" <jguidera-remove@msn.com> wrote:

>While you can't join or be a member of a domain that doesn't mean you can't
>authenticate to one (which for practical purposes is the same thing). You
>can cache credentials on a machine that isn't joined to the domain which
>allows it to access domain based resources. About the only thing that
>doesn't work is you can't "search" the domain for available resources (like
>printers).

For practical purposes from the end user, once everything is working,
it's very similar.

From an admin's point of view, it's a very different concept.
--
Insert something clever here.

Most definitely. Though I haven't bothered to join my laptops to a working
domain in years and have yet to run into anything I couldn't do using cached
credentials. The only thing I miss is being able to search for printers
(for that I need to fire up the admin tools to go hit AD natively to go hunt
for it), that and remembering to go update my creds when my password expires
on the domain.

Cheers,
J

"DevilsPGD" <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote in message
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> In message <8577B170-3E90-412C-A8D0-94EE67AA4278@microsoft.com> "Joe
> Guidera" <jguidera-remove@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>While you can't join or be a member of a domain that doesn't mean you
>>can't
>>authenticate to one (which for practical purposes is the same thing). You
>>can cache credentials on a machine that isn't joined to the domain which
>>allows it to access domain based resources. About the only thing that
>>doesn't work is you can't "search" the domain for available resources
>>(like
>>printers).
>
> For practical purposes from the end user, once everything is working,
> it's very similar.
>
> From an admin's point of view, it's a very different concept.
> --
> Insert something clever here.