I received an error "Unable to load specified offline registry hive" when attempting to join a Windows-container to my domain. Can you help me understand why?

Question

I have created a Windows container as a development environment, then I can create another account inside this container for my test. Now, I want to manage these accounts inside the container to manage some domain users from the Active Directory server 2019. I have tried to join a Windows container to my domain with a lot of ways from the Internet to manage these container users from the AD server. But I got an error "Unable to load specified offline registry hive". Why we cannot join the Windows container to any domain? And how can we resolve the error? Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

As per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/manage-containers/manage-serviceaccounts , Windows containers do not support AD domain join Windows containers cannot be domain joined, but many Windows applications that run in Windows containers still need AD Authentication. To use AD Authentication, you can configure a Windows container to run with a group Managed Service Account (gMSA). hth
Marcin

Answer 2

As far as I understand (and as per documentation I referenced) this is not supported

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hth Marcin