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  • Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins.
  • Instructions once available, now missing - likely due to company's preference for Microsoft accounts.
  • People may resist switching to Microsoft accounts for privacy reasons, despite company's stance.
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[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What’s even crazier is that corporate customers don’t actually deal with this in any way! There’s no Microsoft account required on an Active Directory controlled PC.

Source: I am big corporate IT. Oh, and my personal AD deployment, outside of work

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

How are you accomplishing this? Provisioning the PCs to be part of the domain with a Powershell install script during automated setup? Because I was under the impression that this also had become a difficult task with 11. Because a Windows 11 machine doesn't know it's going to be part of the domain until it has been added to the domain. So, the only way I can see that working is like Powershell combined with WDS or something.

Source: Am small IT

EDIT: Also, the LTSC version of Windows 11 isn't coming until later in 2024. So I'm very curious how this works with 11 specifically.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Windows 11 Enterprise likely uses a different OOBE, I just tell it to join during setup. At work, everything is image-based and pre-configured so no standard OOBE.

Like most things at MS, those with the resources get everything they want while the little guy gets screwed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

*smacks forehead

Ah yes, I forgot about the existence of Entrprise edition. I've just never dealt with a business that paid for such a thing, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, you can DL enterprise Win11 for free to, just gotta know how to grab it from MS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

just gotta know how to grab it from MS.

Be a kind soul and share, please and thank you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Shit, I was just looking at massgrave the other day, didn't realize they had direct links. Thanks a bunch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Haha, I work for one of Microsoft’s biggest customers and they still treat us like shit. Trust me they don’t do favors for anybody. They honestly do not care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

During setup press Shift + F10, type OOBE\bypassnro, press enter and have fun creating local accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That has been err "fixed" some time ago. You cant open the command window during setup anymore

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can. I downloaded the (german language) setup iso from microsoft about 3 weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tried it a couple months ago on a laptop, didnt work. But it also already came with a W11 install, maybe thats why

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Tried it just yesterday with the multi edition iso directly downloaded from the ms web page.
But as I am in Germany and my region is the EU/in Germany we get a different treatment.

Or it's just the OS the OEM delivers that is BS :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Im from germany too, so i would guess its the latter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Windows 11 pro OOBE > get device online either via WiFi or wired network or bypass via commands > set up for school or work > sign in options > Domain Join. This asks you for local account name and password for a local administrator account and then drops you on the login screen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

LTSC 24H2 released sometime at the end of May? I installed it just recently in a VM..