- #Can windows 2011 home server join a domain how to#
- #Can windows 2011 home server join a domain install#
- #Can windows 2011 home server join a domain update#
- #Can windows 2011 home server join a domain upgrade#
Yep, that's really all you got to do, no reboot required!
#Can windows 2011 home server join a domain install#
Then change "SkipAutoDNSServerDetection" from False to True.Ĩ) Enter the credentials, and the connector install will continue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Server\Networking\ServerDiscovery
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Reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Server\ClientDeployment" /v SkipDomainJoin /t REG_DWORD /d 1Ģ) Press Win+x, choose 'Command Prompt (Admin)'ģ) Right-click on the Command Prompt window, choose PasteĤ) Press enter, and the registry change is then automatically made, you can close this windowĥ) Kick off the connector install with the usual URL:Ħ) Go through the install, and stop at the point where it asks you for credentialsħ) Next, Run regedit.exe, then head to this key
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Tried a few things with a bunch of Windows 8.1 builds and connector install methods. So first, I simply followed the tweaks listed the Microsoft-documented tweaks for 2012 Essentials, just for grins, to see if they'd happen to work on 2012 R2 Essentials. I figured I'd much rather build from scratch, while keeping my 3TB network share drive intact, just as I've been doing with all prior upgrades to.įor some reason, I thought it might not be too hard to figure out what Microsoft is doing with the registry keys. This became strong motivation to stop fiddling with the old, and start over with the new R2. So when an issue arose with my faithful daily backup methods these past 10 months, I was facing reconfiguring my daily PC backups for 14 machines, with 5TB of daily backups to re-seed.
#Can windows 2011 home server join a domain upgrade#
Yes, you heard that right, there is no upgrade path to R2 from Windows Server 2012 Essentials, explained here.
#Can windows 2011 home server join a domain how to#
How to make R2 behave more like its predecessors, so I could make the move?Īnother hurtle is that R2 Essentials users face a rebuild from scratch anyway.
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Even worse, that Windows Server LAN Configuration service is gone too. Remember those nifty Microsoft-documented tweaks for DNS that I like to think I had a little something to do with? They don't work under R2.
#Can windows 2011 home server join a domain update#
I've been wanting to get around to making the move from Windows Server 2012 Essentials (with Update Rollup 3) over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. See for yourself, in the video I created below. When you install the R2 connector for daily backups, if you'd rather it skip the domain join (staying in a workgroup), AND not have it not monkey with your all your NIC's DNS settings (including Hamachi, VMware, etc), then this article is for you! The connector install is now incredibly fast on Windows 8.1, a vast improvement over all previous client connector installs. To find this article and registry setting easily when you're out and about, just type /connect which brings you back to this article. Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Oct 1 2015) inĬonnect to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials without affecting your DNS, staying in workgroup mode