I got a call from one of my friends who runs a small business office. He asked me to help him on joining his newly purchased computer to his office domain. He said on the phone he could not find any “Network ID” section in the computer properties window as I instructed him to do with other machines before. I spent a couple minutes on the phone and could not figure out why, so I decided to play him a visit.
When I came to his office, and turned on this problem computer. I surprisingly found out this Dell computer he just purchased came with a home entertainment-oriented OS – Microsoft Media Center Edition 2002. Well, according to the technical articles from Microsoft website, you can not join a computer with MCE OS into a business network domain by design. And we did not want to re-install his whole OS since he already installed a lot of applications on it.
Thankfully, I got the following useful information from other people’s blog. Just want to share with you here too.
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