Windows 10: Issues with Local Users and Domain

Hi All


New to all of this so apologies if I get some terminology wrong.


I am currently in the process of trying to change the settings for the primary user account for a Windows 10 PC, but it would appear that the PC was a part of a domain which has restricted access to a lot of these settings. I do not have access to the domain itself or its controller ( I believe it has been decommissioned) so I would like to create a new local user account to get around this, and copy the original profile to this new one, as I am lead to believe that if I disconnect the original user from the domain I will lose access to it.


I have created a new local user, but upon trying to login to it I am receiving the error "we cant sign you in with this credential because your domain isn't available". I am unsure where to go from here, as I would have thought that a newly created local account would not be a part of any domain. Any help is appreciated.

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Migrate Locale Profile to Domain


I removed my reply because watching those instructions on TechNet I started wondering if they really work with Windows 10.

Anyway, whatever you try create first a dummy profile, customize it a bit and move it to domain. If everything works, you can then move real profiles.

 

Difference between local user and domain user?

Excuse me. please help me !

I search everything in the Internet for the question "what is the difference between data of local user and domain user?"

But, i don't understand. You can help me to answer the question?

What happen when i access "administrator" in the local then join to domain controller ?

- windows will added domain user ?

- difference between " new user " and administrator

Besides, if i access "administrator" in local to join domain "Abc.xyz" of my company.
Can i delete the user local ? if can delete, what happen ?

Thank you very much . sorry for English my bad

 

Can't login as local user after adding a computer to a domain


Here are the steps I took. Please tell me if I should have done differently.

1. On the server end add the user and computer to the domain in advance.

2. Fresh install windows 10 and make the first username Admin.

3. Once at desktop rename PC to match PC name on domain i.e. Workstation001.

4. Add computer to mydomain.local and when asked for username and password I entered the credentials for the new user.

5. Restarted the PC and signed into mydomain\newuser without any problems.

However now when I try to access the original local Admin account by typing 'Workstation001\local Admin' as the username and then the password. It keeps saying password invalid.

So I logged back into the domain account and tried resetting the password to Admin and then tried signing in as admin again, still no luck.

Currently there are 2 accounts on the computer one of them is a local/domain account for newuser and the other is a local Admin account which I cannot access.

What kind of glitch is this? Should I have not joined the domain through the original Admin account and instead added a local user to the PC 'newuser' and then sign in as that user locally then add them to the domain through their own local account? I didn't think this was necessary.