Connect vista Home Edition to a Domain

I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
(on a local network)

Can anybody help me?

Hello,

I think this is impossible for Home editions of Vista:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929543/en-us

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo
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"Martin" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
> (on a local network)
>
> Can anybody help me?

Joining a domain with a computer running Windows Vista
Home Premium is unsupported. You would need to
upgrade to Vista Ultimate in order to join a domain.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Martin" wrote:

I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
(on a local network)

Can anybody help me?

"Martin" <> wrote in message
news:5A1A8FA9-6845-41D1-88F3-...
>I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
> (on a local network)
>

You need Business, Enterprise or Ultimate to connect to domains. The home
editions have reduced networking functionality.

ss.

Hello Martin,

You need Businnes or Ultimate Version.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber (Myweb)
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.

> I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a
> domain (on a local network)
>
> Can anybody help me?
>

I was told about a patch to connect it. The same happened years ago with XP
home edition.
If you know or hear about it, please let me know.

Regards
Martin

"P. Di Stolfo" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think this is impossible for Home editions of Vista:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929543/en-us
>
> Greetings,
> P. Di Stolfo
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> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> // http://blog.lysorp.com - small Windows Blog in German language
> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Martin" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:5A1A8FA9-6845-41D1-88F3-...
> >I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
> > (on a local network)
> >
> > Can anybody help me?
>

There is no "patch". Upgrading to Vista Ultimate is
the only solution.

Upgrade to another edition of Windows Vista
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...93bb81033.mspx

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Martin" wrote:

I was told about a patch to connect it. The same happened years ago with XP
home edition.
If you know or hear about it, please let me know.

Regards
Martin

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:

> There is no "patch". Upgrading to Vista Ultimate is
> the only solution.
>
That gawd there's Visa! Cha-Chink ... more money for MickeyMouse.

Cheers.


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There is no "patch" to fix this, and there never was for Windows XP Home
Edition either. There was a fix that allowed Windows Media Center Edition
to join a domain but that worked only because Windows MCE is based on
Windows XP Professional, which can join a domain.

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"Martin" <> wrote in message
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>I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
> (on a local network)
>
> Can anybody help me?

Carey--
I'm a Microsoft Professional myself and have a question--I have Vista Home
Premium Edition on a laptop (Gateway) and noticed that there are several
files and directories related to 'enterprise domain systems'--configuration
files like 'dcpromo', schema.ini, and manifest files related to group policy
configuration. Furthermore, if I reinstall my OS, over time, I find that I
begin seeing a "roaming" profile folder under users, cannot configure local
security policies (they are greyed out), and that several folders, even with
administrator privileges, cannot be accessed due to security errors--when I
attempt to edit the security tab, even some of these are greyed out so that I
cannot open them. I even have a sysprep folder under system32 which allows
me to run it under OOBE or audit conditions--which seems odd because I would
assume that OPK, Windows PE, sysprep would be left to the 'final' out of the
box experience for the first time an end user starts his computer with the
sysprep folder no longer being visible or being availalble for use. I ran
the microsoft's rootkit revealer and it went crazy--are all of these
"domain-related" files and "sysprep conditions" normal files available on the
vista home premium edition, even if that OS can't be used to join a domain
(much less becoming an NT server or a domain controller--I mean, dcpromo and
adprep?!?)...any help would be much appreciated as this is bothering me and
if there is a problem, I need to know so I can figure out how to fix it!!!!
Rick


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> Joining a domain with a computer running Windows Vista
> Home Premium is unsupported. You would need to
> upgrade to Vista Ultimate in order to join a domain.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
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>
> "Martin" wrote:
>
> I am not able to connect a new notebook with vista home edition to a domain
> (on a local network)
>
> Can anybody help me?
>