Questions tagged [windows-domain]
A Windows domain is a form of a computer network in which all user accounts, computers, printers and other security principals, are registered with a central database (called a directory service) located on one or on a cluster of central computers known as domain controllers.
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How do I delete a user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is part of a domain?
How can I delete the local user profile on a Windows 7 machine that is connected to a Windows Server 2008 domain?
DelProf doesn't seem to exist on Windows 7.
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How do I enable Automatic Logon in Windows 7 when I'm on a domain?
When Windows 7 is joined to a domain the option to automatically login is no longer available in the advanced User Management console. Since I am running a small home domain because of SharePoint and ...
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How can I tell which Domain controller I'm authenticated to?
How can I tell which Domain controller I'm authenticated to? Is there a way to do this without local admin?
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Security Concern with my Windows 7 Box at Work
This question may be weird and misworded but I'm not a Windows expert by any means so feel free to correct me.
The group I'm in recently got new computers at work. They gave me a new computer and ...
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Determine own domain group memberships XP Professional
This seems like it would be a simple question, but my Google skills have failed me.
When logged into a domain (as a domain user without any admin rights), how can I determine what groups my user ...
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How can I make firefox behave like IE on a windows domain when requesting user credentials
With windows IE, I never have to input my domain credentials, it's able to just pass them along.
Is there a way to do this for firefox so that whenever i try to access a site within the intranet that ...
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When RDP as a Domain User, Smart Card Requested
My W8 machine is connected to domain zen. If I rdp to the W8 machine, I can log in as a local user without problems. If I try to log in as a domain user, I am prompted for a smart card instead of a ...
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How do I join a Windows 8 PC into a domain?
How can I enroll a Windows 8 PC into an existing domain?
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What are reasons for local Windows named-pipes to fail?
I've been working hard on this one all day and I'm stuck. This morning our asian collegues called me because a SolidWorks addin for our product data management system could not communicate with the ...
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How can I get the Trust Relationship to the domain to stop failing?
I just installed Windows 10. I was part of a domain. When I try to log in I get,
"The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed."
Since I do not remember my local ...
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How do I force Windows 7 to create a new domain profile with same name as an existing one?
I had a corrupt user profile (let's call it bob) affecting xslx files for Excel on a Windows 7 Pro x64 workstation. I verified that the issue was not present on other profiles on the same machine.
I ...
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How to list windows privileges for any user
I am trying to write a script to list the privileges (eg SeShutDownPrivilege etc) of all user accounts. I'd prefer it if my script could be run as a standard user, but I can run it as an admin account ...
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What is the difference between a domain and a realm
I couldn't get any clear-cut answer hence asking on this forum. I want to know the difference between domain and realm. I tried looking for it at several places on internet . Are they same, different, ...
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The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized
I am trying to use Remote Desktop to another PC on our domain. If I use an administrators account this works fine, however when I use a normal user it gives the error:
The connection was denied ...
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How can I connect a Windows 8 PC to a Samba domain
I am using Samba 3, and want to join my Windows 8 PC to the Samba domain.
Windows 8 cannot join out of the box, so I added the following registry entries:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\...
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Windows 7: Disable Lock Workstation After 10 Minutes Using Group Policy
On my Windows 7 PC the system becomes locked after 10 minutes of inactivity. Usually I would find this setting next to the screen-saver configuration. The setting is grayed out, however.
I think this ...
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Windows 10 Offer Icon (GWX) - How to get it on AD/Domain joined PCs?
I know there´s no need to rush getting Windows 10 as I should receive it for free in the future, at least according to what I´ve read.
However, information about the upgrade offer popping up in the ...
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Windows account ending with $
A Windows account that looks like this "domain\computername$". What does that mean?
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How to join local AD domain during Windows 10 install?
During Windows 10 install, I'd like to join my company's Active Directory domain instead of adding a new local user. Or maybe just login with the (hidden?) local Administrator-account.
During the ...
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Change A Password
I have a non-domain machine that I use with our company's domain resources over vpn regularly. I switched to Windows 8 (fresh install), and the "Change a password" option went away from the Ctrl-Alt-...
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What is going on when I can't access an SMB server share (not accessible error) until I run cmdkey to delete the credential?
I have a network connection share issue. The first connection works, and seems to stay connected for at least a few hours. However, after each time my windows 7 PC reboots, it can no longer form a ...
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Full name of Windows user name (in Domain) using Python
I want to retrieve the full name of a Windows computer user in Python.
I have found the equivalent batch command:
net user "%USERNAME%" /domain | FIND /I "Full Name"
that returns the full name (e.g....
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Period character used for local computer name
I'm wondering about the period character . used as a shortcut for the local computer name.
You can use it when logging into Windows 7, for example, to specify that the user account you're entering ...
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Does a domain joined Windows 10 computer have built-in tools to query AD/LDAP?
I'm on a domain joined Windows 10 Computer and want to query the attributes of my own user account. Are there any built-in tools for that?
It is not an admin computer and I don't have RSAT installed. ...
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How to link Windows 10 domain user account to Microsoft account?
I've just installed build 10130 of the Windows 10 Insider Preview on my desktop, and after joining my domain, I noticed that the usual option to link my domain user account to a Microsoft account ...
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How to turn Windows domain account to a local account
I asked the IT department in our company to remove me from our domain so that some restrictions aimed at all the users within the domain no longer apply to me.
The problem is that when I restart my ...
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Active Directory in a home environment?
I have two questions for you all... If I had a standard home router (Netgear R6300) and was looking at running a basic home domain using Active Directory as the domain controller.
1) How do I go ...
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"The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer" error in Windows domain
I have a domain environment with Server 2008 and Windows 7. Since a few days I receive the following errors from many clients:
The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer "...
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Find next password expiration date in Windows
At work we just switched to having our normal logins be restricted and using a separate login with elevated privileges when necessary (such as for installing software, etc.). We always login with our ...
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Why can't Windows home editions connect to domains?
The company that I work for continuously hires new people, and I'm the one who has to go and purchase new computers. The majority of them, if not all, come pre-installed with Windows Home editions. ...
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What should be taken into consideration when deploying Windows 8 in a domain environment?
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We have ordered new laptops but before they arrive, our development team is trying to decide whether to install Windows 8 or stick with Windows 7. We have already ...
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How can I have a secure domain login without a complex password?
I have recently gone on a security binge, using a password manager to ensure I have different complex passwords on every service I use. However, there's one hole in this system: the domain login. I ...
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Can I VPN connect to my work using Windows 8?
Windows 8 comes in a few versions ... with two of them being
Windows 8
Windows 8 Pro
Checking the comparison chart on wiki, the pro feature has this (where the non-pro doesn't)..
Can join a Windows ...
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Can an administrator of a Windows domain see a user's password?
I'm in a corporate domain. My computer has Windows 7 and Office 2007, so I guess that the server is running Windows Server 2008 or something similar. I am allowed to change the password of my computer ...
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Add domain group to local computer administrators command line
Is it possible to add domain group to local group via command line?
I can add specific users or domain users, but not a group. I would prefer to stick with a command line, but vbscript might be okay....
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How can I see all users of domain in this PC?
If I do:
whoami /groups
I can see all the groups I belong.
My current user e.g. X belongs in a domain (there is a Domain Controller)
My question is why if I go to Control Panel>Manage Accounts ...
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My account gets locked out of the Windows domain
I work in a BYOD environment and my laptop still have Windows 7.
Every so often I get locked out of the domain at our company and have to phone the IS helpdesk and ask them to unlock my account. ...
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"Your Credentials Did Not Work" unless logged in locally first
This is a work from home situation. I have a desktop, which is not joined to domain and a domain joined laptop. When laptop boots up it does not have access to domain since it is not connected to VPN, ...
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Win 8 App Store not working for Domain User
I repaved my laptop over the Thanksgiving weekend with Windows 8.1, installed from a DVD.
Full disclosure - I did do something not exactly approved - I interrupted the installation process and added ...
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Long boot time if the computer is not connected to the domain
All computers in our company are connected to a domain. Now a lot of people reported that their computer need a long time to boot as soon as they are no longer connected to the domain.
I was unable to ...
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Using OneDrive with a Domain User account on Windows 8.1
Is there any workarounds for getting OneDrive to work on a Windows domain account? I have connected my domain account to my personal Microsoft account however OneDrive does not work. The modern UI ...
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Active Directory domain in home network - how to add computer
I had used AD domain before, but the domain was set up already, so I do not have much hands-on experience with setting up everything from scratch, and I am still new to networking side of things, so ...
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Is it possible to change the SID of a local user account manually?
Let's say for argument's sake I wish to change the SID of a Windows local user account to one that appears on some hypothetical Active Directory domain. Is that possible? If so, how?
P.S. I don't ...
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How to setup firewall ports via logon script
I work as IT suport for public service. We use domain controller and logon scripts. These scripts are pretty helpful, since they can automatically install printers and add network folders as local ...
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UPN vs DOMAIN\USER signin
What is the difference between using [email protected] over DOMAIN\USER? Does the difference come in to play the bigger the AD/business network is?
For my setup I have now I can use either/or and ...
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Windows 10 login only accepting e-mail not local domain user
This is a strange one I can't seem to figure out. This is my PC running Windows 10 Education edition.
I connected to my university's Azure AD last year, and created a local profile from the student e-...
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domain joined Windows 10 - Disable password requirement on wake up
I've been trying to disable Windows 10 Pro (Build 15063) from prompting for my password when my computer wakes up for a while now, and can't figure it out.
I have a few PCs joined to a Windows domain ...
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Repeatedly getting "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed"
This problem keeps occurring at random on domain network that I have set up..
This problem occurs only is I use windows 7(pro x64) and does not occur for XP(pro x86 and x64).
Rejoining the client ...
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Why can't I use PSExec on a Windows domain without disabling the firewall?
I have some Windows 7 machines on the domain with a Windows 2012 DC.
Is it normal that I can't connect with PSExec to run a command as a local administrator from one Windows 7 machine to another ...
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What's the difference between runas.exe and "Run as different user"?
I'm working with a line-of-business application that needs to be run as a domain user. I have a user that wants to continue using a local account (since not everything can be migrated to a domain user ...