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Domain User Setup issue -- lost Admin abilities - Please Help.

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GCS

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We have and SBS2008 Server.

8 Workstations on Windows 7

All Workstations are fresh installs of Win 7 Pro 32 bit

7 of them work great and have attached to the domain just fine, 1 has lost it's Admin abilities so I cannot remove programs, change drive letters etc on that PC.

Here the process I used (which worked perfectly everywhere else but this one PC)

Clean Install of Win 7 Pro
Got it up and running and Networked (i.e. assigned it an IP address and gave it the DNS address of our SBS2008 machine)
Joined the domain
Rebooted
Login with local user account
Once up run http://connect
Follow procedure setting up a user name and password which matches what is set up in SBS2008
After this I tell it to copy the user settings etc from the local user account I am using now
Reboot
Login with the proper user name and password to access the domain and SBS2008

Connection is fine and I can access the internet, the server, etc but I CANNOT change drive letters under Administrative Tools, nor can I uninstall programs etc.

It tells me I do not have Administrative Permission

Not sure what the deal is on this one machine as it has worked perfectly for all the other machines.

I have wiped and reinstalled Win 7 3 times with the same result each time.

What am I missing here and is this fixable w/o having to reinstall windows a 4th time.

LMK

Thanks

Greg
 
The standard setting for a User assigned to a freshly-Domain-joined is as "Standard User" on the client computer, who can't install programs. Maybe you missed that setting if you want Domain users to be local Administrators?
 
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Umm this is exactly what I am doing -- worked fine on all the other PCs

On the connect wizard I am typing in the user name and password that was set up on SBS. Then I tell it to keep the settings from X profile (the only one listed which is the "Local" account)


The wizard won't run of course unless I join the Domain first under the advance settings of "My Computer".

Greg
 
GCS said:
The wizard won't run of course unless I join the Domain first under the advance settings of "My Computer".
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I don't remember. Were you the person who couldn't get Win7 computers to find the server as they should? If all goes as it should, there's no need to join PCs to the Domain before running the http://connect Wizard. It'd normally be a bad idea because anything you did to the Domain User profiles on that PC would be lost since the SBS Connect Wizard only finds local profiles and not domain profiles.

Edit:
Note that I changed my response in my post above this one. My original "issue" was because of the prior Domain joining before the SBS Connect Wizard was run. It's definitely "non-standard", not necessary, and would cause the profile transfer issue that I just mentioned.
 
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Well the connect wizard will not run from CD or the http link unless I join the Domain first.

Clearly I must be doing it wrong or am set up wrong or something but that is the way things work for me.

Greg
 
GCS said:
Well the connect wizard will not run from CD or the http link unless I join the Domain first.
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You didn't say what the error is, but maybe this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957708

There was a recent discussion in the "Operating Systems" or "Networking" forums about this issue. I have no idea why Microsoft decided to eliminate the SBS server name from the URL recommended for starting up the SBS Connect wizard.
 
Made no difference whatsoever. The fix posted allowed me to access the SBS machine w/o joining the network but once I do I still do not have access rights to disk management etc on the local machine.

This has become ridiculously aggravating as I only have this issue on this ONE machine. I have wiped and reinstalled Win 7 Pro 7 times now on this machine to try and fix this problem.

I have no clue what the problem is and no idea how to correct it.

Greg
 
Ok looks like a final reinstall on Windows 7 and a reboot of the SBS server before connecting has fixed the problem.

No idea what the cause was but at least it seems fixed now (I hope)

Greg
 
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