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  • Monday, March 19, 2012 1:50 PM
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    Question: Can I sync my PC settings if I connect my Microsoft Account (previously called Windows Live ID) to my domain log in?

    Answer:

    1. Bring up the charms bar, and select Settings, then select More PC settings.

    2. Select Users.

    3. Under “Connect your domain account to your Microsoft account to sync PC settings,” select Connect.

    4. The “Connect your Microsoft Account” wizard appears as a strip across the center of the screen. From the options shown below, choose which shared settings you want to sync between the PCs you use. The options are all checked by default.

      • Personalize
      • App Settings
      • Desktop personalization
      • Ease of Access
      • Other Windows settings
      • Language preferences
      • Sign-in info

    5. After clicking Next on the previous screen, enter the email address and password for your Microsoft Account and click Next.

    6. Add cell phone and alternate email address, if this is not already configured in your Microsoft Account and click Next.

    7. Click Finish on the confirmation screen. The change takes effect immediately and you do not need to sign out.

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  • Friday, March 23, 2012 6:35 AM
     
     
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    It does help in the Administrative Tools - Computer Management, if you have not already; configured the Adminstrator and it's privileges, Users and its privileges.  Remember - this is a BETA mode; so  by all means be careful in this area of configuration and settings and there the Connection and Live Settings will be fit accordingly.  I have my own Server split (unless you know how to build your own Server you can still have Win 7 and Win 8 BETA - with the BIOS configuration in the boot mode so that you can boot up in either Win 7 or Win 8; I know I am on Win 7 right now because I need to download some more Win 8 BETA to add on to the Server, I confess, I messed up *grins*).

    I do want to put some EMPHASIS on this end here on those who are running on Split Servers because you have made a valid point there, for I have found in BIOS configuration for Win 8 very tricky - I am running on a very powerful x86 (32 bit) OS even though everything is geared up for 64 bit OS but it is working and running smoothly.

    It does pay to heed that area, in addition to that extension of the Windows Firewall - I noticed in the registry (this might be a x86 / 32 bit OS issue here and not a 64 bit issue); but what is marked in the normalcy is ="true", extension ends up ="false" which ends up in corruption or errors, just a simple fix of correction of fixing that ext. of that Win 8 firewall extension from "false" to "true" to make it equal; worked.

    But in addendum --> There is this Nuget issues, if you have not looked at the latest update of its known issues and downloaded the hotfix or read up on it, this also resolved and fixed this "Connection" and "Live" issues.

    Don't forget to reboot after the configurations have been done.

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  • Wednesday, March 28, 2012 7:33 AM
     
     
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    When I first connected the Developer Preview of Windows 8 to the Internet, I tied my domain login to a Microsoft Account. After I installed Consumer Preview on a machine, I found that when I associated the account again (this time, not associated with a domain account), all the settings transferred to the new system. I think what is going to happen is that the Microsoft accounts are going to be somewhat independent of the domain accounts, and its going to be a bit of a dual credentials system, being that anything web facing or Metro UI facing is going to be setup to use the Microsoft Account and the items in the background for management and other tasks, as well as accessing files and resources, are going to be tied between the two. I am not an authority on this though, so this is just speculation, but I can say that the Microsoft Account joined with a ADDS account does work as advertised.

     
  • Saturday, June 02, 2012 3:53 PM
     
     
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    Once we join a Win8 machine to our domain and group policy is processed all metro apps stop working. This happens in the new release as well. See this thread:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w8itpronetworking/thread/f5791a9b-cd22-4b6d-8ac4-fc80d2bda19b?prof=required


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  • Sunday, June 03, 2012 10:12 PM
     
     
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    I have the issue also.  Even though I can log in to Windows Live, I cannot join my Windows Account to my domain Account.

    One clue is an error message I saw in a fresh install of Windows 8 RP that said something like "The app failed to launch because UAC is disabled".

    OK.  So I changed my group policy to not disable UAC.

    It did not help.  I still cannot link the two accounts.

    Is there anything else I can try?

     
  • Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:50 PM
     
     
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    So to follow up on this, yes, you can connect and sync PC settings between PCs in Windows 8 Release Preview, and in fact they don't have to even be connected to the domain to sync the settings between the computers, just not MS has added in that there needs to be a trust relationship to sync saved passwords between Windows 8 machines is really the only difference. For example, I had to trust both of them in the my Windows Live account profile, but my laptop that I don't have attached to the domain for some testing sends and receives updated settings from my desktop that is connected to our internal domain. Also, I think this is different than the Consumer Preview, but I could be wrong, it looks as if MS made it so that everything communicates with their servers through https and http in the Release Preview, and maybe the issue you were having before was it was a port that was needed open. Just a thought on that one.
     
  • Friday, June 15, 2012 8:45 PM
     
     
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    The trust relationship, that's the rub.

    My trusts are messed up because of a non-existent, obsolete email address that Live ID wants to use for all confirmations.

    None the less, I was able to do a fresh install, log in with my Live ID, and then join the domain.  The IDs appear to be linked and I can run apps on the new PC.

     
  • Tuesday, June 26, 2012 12:30 AM
     
     
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    I thought I had achieved the connection on a fresh install but it turned out that once I joined the domain and logged in with my domain ID I ended up with two IDs on the machine.

    I continued to play with it and I finally did it!

    I also have the problem of unable to run any Metro app once Win8 machine is joined to domain and group policy is processed.

    I was trying to track down the various errors in the event logs that happened when I tried.  One of these was DistributedCOM event 10001.  I searched and found Event ID 10001 — COM General Functionality.  Resources did not seem to be the problem so I went to the bottom, step 5 of Verify:  "confirm that Access Permissions and Launch and Activation Permissions properties are set properly".

    I did not know what was proper so I just made sure that Activated Users had access and launch permissions by adding that group.

    I tried opening up PC Settings using the Charms Bar and to my surprise, it opened.  Not only that but when I clicked Users it had the "Connect your domain account to your Microsoft account" button.  And when I clicked it, it worked.

    Note, I still cannot go to the Store.

     
  • Friday, September 07, 2012 6:59 AM
     
     
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    I wonder how you STOP people from syncing Apps and Settings using their Microsoft ID connected to a domain account.

    Isn't this is a massive can of worms security nightmare?

    Just wondering...

     
  • Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:42 PM
     
     
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    I wonder how you STOP people from syncing Apps and Settings using their Microsoft ID connected to a domain account.

    Isn't this is a massive can of worms security nightmare?

    Just wondering...


    I also wonder about bandwidth consumption for small entities like private schools or NPO's without budget for anything bigger than a DSL line...