Windows 8 on REDMOND domain

NicolasJ · Nov 9, 2012

Any other Microsoft employees out there using Parallels Mac and Win8 on the REDMOND domain, that is on the Microsoft intranet? My Win7 virtual machine joined the domain fine but my Win8 machine will not. Anyone else having this issue? I get an error when trying to join REDMOND that an account for my machine cannot be found.

TaureanJ · Nov 7, 2013

NicolasJ said:
Any other Microsoft employees out there using Parallels Mac and Win8 on the REDMOND domain, that is on the Microsoft intranet? My Win7 virtual machine joined the domain fine but my Win8 machine will not. Anyone else having this issue? I get an error when trying to join REDMOND that an account for my machine cannot be found.

Did you ever figure out how to join your machine to the corporate domain?

NicolasJ · Nov 8, 2013

TaureanJ said:
Did you ever figure out how to join your machine to the corporate domain?

Yeah, I wasn't running the enterprise version of Win8, which is required in order to connect to CorpNet on the domain. Bit a chicken/egg problem, you need to connect to corpnet to get the enterprise version but you can't connect to corpnet without the enterprise version. My IT guy finally did a command line install of some sort and then I was able to connect fine. To be honest, I don't know how he did that.