Re: Domain access and Upgrading Home edition to Professional

From: Nico Tomacelli \(MSFT\) (nicot_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/12/03 

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:52 -0700

John,

Yes, you can seemlessly upgrade Home to Professional. Professional
completely supports being in a domain environment and being joined to a DC.
Not sure what you mean by gotchas.

Hope this helps.

Thx,
Nico
US - Windows Core:Ux

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"John Zacharkan" <zach_john@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:025e01c3311a$f0223430$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> From what I've gathered so far after reading through all
> the smart a$$ remarks XP home Ed. does not have the means
> to logon to a domain.
>
> Well silly me bought a laptop that came with a XP Home
> ED. brought to the office and said connect to the domain
> and well you all know the rest.
>
> Does XP Pro support connecting to a domain? If so are
> there any gottchas?
>
> Can XP Home Ed. be upgraded to Pro
>
> thank you