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We recently received some new laptops with windows 11 and I cannot add them to the active directory. Member of "domain" is grayed out. And only shows "work group".
I will need them added to the directory to pass out to staff/students.
Any ideas on why this is happening?
Hi,
Did you logged in with the local administrator account? Can you also check if the workstation service is started and running?
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Workstation service is running.
Solution.
It was running windows home. To be added to a domain it needs to be running Windows Pro.
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This doesn't answer, though, why WORKGROUP is greyed out. We want to use our own name not WORKGROUP.
