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nick99nack
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 Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 9:26 pm Post subject: Joining Windows 11 24H2 to a Server 2003 Domain |
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If you ever find yourself needing to join a Windows 11 24H2 system to a Server 2003 Domain (I won't judge  ), here's what you need to do:
1. Press Win+R to open the Run box
2. Type "control" to open the Control Panel
3. View By: Large/Small Icons (anything but Category)
4. Open Programs and Features
5. Click on "Turn Windows features on or off
6. Scroll down to SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support, and enable SMB 1.0/CIFS Client
7. Allow the feature to install, then reboot the machine
8. Once rebooted, open up a PowerShell window as the local admin and run the following commands:
| Code: | | Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false -Force |
| Code: | | Set-SmbServerConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false -Force |
This disables SMB signing. You will get authentication and group policy issues if you don't do this.
9. Reboot the machine
10. Join the machine to the domain as you would normally.
11. ???
12. Profit!
EDIT: Please continue on to reading the following post and check if you need the registry key!
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nick99nack
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 3:37 pm Post subject: Part two: Freezes, high disk usage, unsaved credentials |
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So after a while of using the above method, it turns out there is another bug that needs to be dealt with. So, on Windows 10 and 11, specifically on older domains, you will find issues with Credential Manager. On Windows 10, this simply caused some applications to fail to log in (or would lose your login credentials upon reboot).
On Windows 11, this causes a whole host of issues other than the aforementioned credential issues. Now it causes not only random lag spikes and freezes, but also spams the shit out of your SSD!
I was getting constant 100MB/s of writes to my SSD:
This caused the total host writes to my SSD to balloon in 4 days to 39TB!
It's honestly insane that a credential manager bug could cause a constant flood of writes to disk. No failed process should cause this kind of damage...
Anyway, for the fix:
A registry key needs to be set. Copy and paste the following text into Notepad or your other favorite text editor and save as a .reg file. Then, double click on it to add it to your registry:
| Code: | Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\Protect\Providers\df9d8cd0-1501-11d1-8c7a-00c04fc297eb]
"ProtectionPolicy"=dword:00000001 |
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