OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=,DC=local Then I found Active Directory Explorer (a fascinating little app) and realised what was wrong with the LDAP URL. The Full Solutionįor a while I went through various hoops – trying to write some C# code to access the Active Directory on my SBS 2011 server – these attempts also all failed with the same error. Oh.īasically, I had got something wrong with the way I specified the domain. I followed the instructions but kept getting the same error: ‘The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.’ on line 144. All I had to do was edit the domain string on line 28 of the script following the example as closely as possible and all would be perfect. I found a great VBS script which migrates the users based on Vista’s MoveUser.exe replacement. However, it gave me the starting point to find an alternative solution. The first breakthrough came when I found a great utility helpfully provided by Microsoft called MoveUser which they, slightly less helpfully, stopped providing since Windows Vista. It appears that many people have tried to do the same thing with varying degrees of success. Unfortunately, I also had to loose the Linux partition because I keep filling up my disk space.Īs usual, I scoured the internet for help and found a few parts of the jigsaw. But I have now updated to Windows 7 Professional and it all becomes possible. I have been using a local user “Simon” but also have a domain user “Simon” so, quite naturally, I wanted to join them together in some way so that all the stuff and settings I had built up with the local user would be available to the domain user.Īs I explained in an earlier blog posting, I was using Windows 7 Home Premium so I couldn’t join the domain. This week, I joined my Windows 7 laptop to my Windows SBS 2011 domain.

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