@black3dynamite said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Obsolesce said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Obsolesce said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Obsolesce said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

I use this guide to walk customers through setting up a machine nearly weekly.

I'm curious why you push them away from using a MS account?

If the machine is pulled in to Azure AD by signing in with a MS AAD account, one cannot use that account to RDP into that endpoint. Something be broken there.

Better to set up a local account and bind the Azure AD/MS Account in the OS settings.

Interesting - didn't know that.

So what - you setup a local account, then under that local account, join it to an MS AAD, then login as the MS AAD account? Then you can RDP into the computer using the MS AAD account?

You can RDP into an AAD joined Win10 PC with an AAD account. I do it all the time.

Perhaps that account isn't added to the local Administrators group, or the one that allows RDP.

Log on process?

Domain\UserName & Password

or

[email protected] AAD account?

For standalone non-domain joined OS VMs/PCs [email protected] AAD does not work.

Yes [email protected].

On a device that is joined to AAD, try adding AzureAD\[email protected] like this:

net localgroup Administrators AzureAD\[email protected] /add

Otherwise something is misconfigured in AAD. There are a lot of variables in this.

I ran the gamut of trying to get it to work both in CompMgmt.msc and CMD.

AAD is vanilla. No changes.

What's the exact command you used, because it works for me.

Nope.

Not sure if this will work but include AzureAD\ has part of your username.

Yes that has to be included.

The error messages says something about the credentials, so no idea. Does it work if you add it to the local Administrators group?

Other than that, I'm not doing anything different and it works with any AAD account on any AAD device, so I've not had to troubleshoot it.

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Obsolesce said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Obsolesce said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

I use this guide to walk customers through setting up a machine nearly weekly.

I'm curious why you push them away from using a MS account?

If the machine is pulled in to Azure AD by signing in with a MS AAD account, one cannot use that account to RDP into that endpoint. Something be broken there.

Better to set up a local account and bind the Azure AD/MS Account in the OS settings.

Interesting - didn't know that.

So what - you setup a local account, then under that local account, join it to an MS AAD, then login as the MS AAD account? Then you can RDP into the computer using the MS AAD account?

You can RDP into an AAD joined Win10 PC with an AAD account. I do it all the time.

Perhaps that account isn't added to the local Administrators group, or the one that allows RDP.

Log on process?

Domain\UserName & Password

or

[email protected] AAD account?

For standalone non-domain joined OS VMs/PCs [email protected] AAD does not work.

Yes [email protected].

On a device that is joined to AAD, try adding AzureAD\[email protected] like this:

net localgroup Administrators AzureAD\[email protected] /add

Otherwise something is misconfigured in AAD. There are a lot of variables in this.

I ran the gamut of trying to get it to work both in CompMgmt.msc and CMD.

AAD is vanilla. No changes.

What's the exact command you used, because it works for me.

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Obsolesce said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

I use this guide to walk customers through setting up a machine nearly weekly.

I'm curious why you push them away from using a MS account?

If the machine is pulled in to Azure AD by signing in with a MS AAD account, one cannot use that account to RDP into that endpoint. Something be broken there.

Better to set up a local account and bind the Azure AD/MS Account in the OS settings.

Interesting - didn't know that.

So what - you setup a local account, then under that local account, join it to an MS AAD, then login as the MS AAD account? Then you can RDP into the computer using the MS AAD account?

You can RDP into an AAD joined Win10 PC with an AAD account. I do it all the time.

Perhaps that account isn't added to the local Administrators group, or the one that allows RDP.

Log on process?

Domain\UserName & Password

or

[email protected] AAD account?

For standalone non-domain joined OS VMs/PCs [email protected] AAD does not work.

Yes [email protected].

On a device that is joined to AAD, try adding AzureAD\[email protected] like this:

net localgroup Administrators AzureAD\[email protected] /add

Otherwise something is misconfigured in AAD. There are a lot of variables in this.

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@PhlipElder said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:

I use this guide to walk customers through setting up a machine nearly weekly.

I'm curious why you push them away from using a MS account?

If the machine is pulled in to Azure AD by signing in with a MS AAD account, one cannot use that account to RDP into that endpoint. Something be broken there.

Better to set up a local account and bind the Azure AD/MS Account in the OS settings.

Interesting - didn't know that.

So what - you setup a local account, then under that local account, join it to an MS AAD, then login as the MS AAD account? Then you can RDP into the computer using the MS AAD account?

You can RDP into an AAD joined Win10 PC with an AAD account. I do it all the time.

Perhaps that account isn't added to the local Administrators group, or the one that allows RDP.

It looks like the whole issue was due to their use of some weird distro years ago.

That article technically doesn't say why they need Windows now, so for all I know they have some new weird requirements I don't know about, but assuming they don't, I think the decision to go to Windows is a horrible idea. They'd be much better off going to Ubuntu instead.

I really like Grav. It's a great static site platform, but is technically CMS and not easy for the layman to set up.

Perhaps straight HTML in an HTML editor is best then.

@larsen161 said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

The ISPs are still going to get pretty darn close knowing the IPs of all the traffic. They don't need DNS to track user activities. It's just a lot easier if they do.

I'm actually leaning on the side of not caring for home use. It's not like I ever visit any domains or have IP traffic to/from places that could be used against me in any way. So really, I don't care if the places I do go to are used for monetary gain for the ISP or for AD serving. I block ads anyways, so really, neither part effects me.

However, I do have a problem with it for enterprise, because they may likely have traffic that can be either used against them, whether sold, used for competitive advantages, source leaks, etc, lots of possibilities and reasons to be concerned from a business perspective... But IMO, at least for me, not a personal perspective.

For any adhoc needs, there is always secure dns and VPN.

That all said, even though I don't care, I'd still prefer the ISP is totally out of the loop and am for encrypted DNS.

@JaredBusch said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:

@scottalanmiller I believe part of the legal was that you obtained mct from a valid licensed instal and upgraded from within said install.

Not just using a valid key to install 10 straight.

This is exactly how to do it legally, as an upgrade from within the OS first, form 7 to 10. Then, after you do that, you can do a fresh install, but you must upgrade from within 7 first.

@scottalanmiller said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

Sure huawei and xiaomi are out there, but Huawei is nearly impossible to find in the US, and I don't know anything about availability of xiaomi in the US... so they might be cheaper but if you can't buy them, does that really matter?

Xiaomi is very available. Huawei is a pain in the US but the most available phone world wide. And don't forget OnePlus which is higher end than Samsung for like $700.

So those all used to be $1k?