Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by yawaramin on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:13PM (#21107861)

I have used Windows PCs at work extensively. I had no idea that 'Domain join' could mean 'create an offline account'.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by amaccuish on Sunday September 29, 2019 @12:54PM (#21108121)

> I had no idea that 'Domain join' could mean 'create an offline account'.

It doesn't. It means, or at least it should, join the PC to a Active Directory/NT4 domain.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by klodolph on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:05PM (#21109902)

“Administered”. I’m not talking about local admin rights, I’m talking about the people in your IT department who administer a fleet of Windows PCs.

It doesn’t normally mean “create offline account”, but domain accounts are not the same as Microsoft accounts, and domain accounts are a normal part of enterprise deployments. So it does normally mean that you can create a non-Microsoft account. Yes, it’s stupid. Not defending it, just trying to explain what “join domain” means.

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