If you are a systems administrator, you know the drill. You get a fresh Windows 11 workstation, you join it to the domain, and then you open the Start menu to look for .

You cannot deploy this via GPO startup script easily because the user must be logged in? Actually, you can. Use in an offline or online state.

Alternatively, use (Control Panel > User Accounts > Credential Manager) to add a Windows Credential for *.domain.com with your admin account. Warning: This caches the ticket, which is convenient but a security risk on shared machines.

Windows 11 has a feature called for DNS and LDAP by default. While great for security, it wreaks havoc on high-latency WAN links to RODCs.

It isn't there. And it hasn’t been there since Windows 10.

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Sometimes ADUC installs, but when you open dsa.msc (the run command for ADUC), nothing happens, or you get "MMC cannot create the snap-in."

The GUI is dead. Long live the CLI.