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compugirl   06-29-2009 at 07:20:48 PM

This is a little 'unclear' in the comparison chart.

Windows 7 Pro includes "Domain Join" so does that mean you won't be able to join Home Premium machines to a domain and will only be able to use workgroups? Or is that just a 'different' way to join it to the domain, with the ability to do that still in all versions of 7?

My spouse and I are both IT professionals, and are looking to go to Win7 at home... and the Home pricetag is much more friendly for 5 PCs than the Pro price tag... but since we run a DC at home, we need to be able to join our machines to it. We don't NEED anything that Pro/Ultimate have to offer... except this one pesky question I'm not finding an answer to.

This is probably a dumb question, but like so many people, we skipped right over Vista, and have always run XP Pro at home.


Message edited by compugirl on 06-29-2009 at 07:26:52 PM
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mi1ez   06-29-2009 at 07:37:15 PM
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From what I've read, you can't connect either of the home versions to a domain, but I can't remember where I've read this, so I'm afraid I can't link you up.

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Devastator_uk   06-29-2009 at 07:58:03 PM
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No you can't join a home edition of XP, Vista or 7 to a domain.

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compugirl   06-29-2009 at 09:51:37 PM
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I was afraid of that... with the way they were pushing 2008 Home Server, I'm surprised this 7 Home Premium wouldn't allow connection to a DC.

Then again, I've been assuming that 2008 Home Server was DC enabled (only ever worked with the business server end of things)


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Devastator_uk   06-29-2009 at 10:11:06 PM
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Looking at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windo [...] ison_chart , it's only a guess but it's possible the home server uses that "Home Group" thing instead of DC, but then again I could just be making that bit up as I've not looked into the home servers.

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compugirl   06-30-2009 at 12:04:36 AM
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From what it looks like "home group" is just another way of saying "workgroup"... at least it looked that way the brief second I looked at it.

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Devastator_uk   06-30-2009 at 07:05:21 AM
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Just has a quick look into "home group" and you create the group on one PC and the other ones join it (a little bit like a DC) rather than just typing in the same workgroup name.

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amdowney   10-27-2009 at 10:50:05 PM
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According to the following article XP home Unlike Pro is NOT able to join a Domain but you can still access data on a Windows 2000 Domain server : http://www.windowsnetworking.com/a [...] hdoms.html

I'm guessing Windows 7 can still access shared files on a domain server in the same way perhaps?

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Zoron   10-27-2009 at 10:54:21 PM
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Yes, that should be the case. You are able to log on to the domain when accessing it's shares, but you cannot join the computer to the domain.

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