Re: Users Logging on to Domains

Many IT technicians will deliberately configure and login to their work
laptops as a non-domain user, to allow easier portability going from one
customer (server) to the next.

What do you lose? Well, just some things off the top of my head ... WSUS
does not see non-domain PC's; you lose the ability to push down group policy
changes to such systems; any Microsoft or 3rd party apps that work on
validating an AD domain user won't be able to do so.

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"John F Kappler" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I thought I understood this until ......

All our users are registered as users on the SBServer.

All their PCs are also added and listed.

If you go to a user PC, you log in as the Username, and the Domain
"XXXXX".

All works fine, EXCEPT one of the users doesn't do the above! They
login as the Username, but instead of the Domain they anve an entry of
"AA99 (This Computer)" - Its the name of the PC.

All the server applications work as normal, they send and receive
e-mails, they access the internet, the network attached storage, etc.
etc. In fact, if I hadn't have been logging on to their PC as
Administrator to resolve a device problem, I wouldn't have noticed the
difference.

I've resisted changing the logon to use the domain name cos I'm fairly
certain it will create a new user and I'll have to move across all
their files, settings, defaults, etc.

But it does lead me to ask the question, what does a Domain user get
that this person doesn't?

TIA,

JohnK


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