Re: How to connect a Vista Client to the domain?

The article was written for RC1. In the RTM the built in administrator is disabled in safe mode as well unless there are no other admin accounts. To join a Vista pc to an SBS domain I just right click IE and pick Run as administrator. If you get any complaints about enabling the Intranet then do so. The wizard doesn't work 100% but it will get the pc joined to the domain and in the proper OU. It won't add any domain users to the local admin group so if you want that you'll have to logon as a domain admin and add the users or groups manually to the local admins group. The article is mostly right about the steps for RTM, just ignore the part about using the special administrator account.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2


"Hollis Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:VA.00000285.0273672c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <OI4tnnuJHHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, HandyAndy aka Andy Goodman
[SBS-MVP} wrote:
From: "HandyAndy aka Andy Goodman [SBS-MVP}" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How to connect a Vista Client to the domain?
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:27:50 -0500
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs


http://seanda.blogspot.com/2006/08/looking-to-run-vista-rc1-on-sbs-2003.html

The first step seems to be the killer. It says to log in as the special
administrator account that was set up in the install. How does one do that.
All I am able to get to is the screen with the gliphs for the two users I
created. Right-clicking doesn't get me a style drop-down in which I can
"classical" version in which I can enter "Administrator". I presume it uses
the same mechanism as WinXP did, but that installation was so long ago I have
forgotten how it worked.

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Hollis Paul
Mukilteo, WA USA



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