Windows – How to add printer to Active Directory in Windows Server 2016

Stick with the open-source, if I'm reading your question correctly:

• You don't care about Exchange
• You don't have a huge need for minute control of XP settings - I love group policy primarily to save the admin/sales staff from themselves, the developers mostly need me to stay out of their hair
• You're more comfortable with *nix than windows

AD is great at managing windows to a fine degree, but if you don't need that, you're buying yourself a learning curve that won't likely bring a great deal of benefit.

2 caveats

• If you've got the time/interest to push yourself more on the MS side of things, this is a good way to provide that.
• WSUS is a good way to control workstation/server patches. If you can't just flip the "automatic" switch on all machines, this might push the balance over to SBS (if SBS does WSUS?)

There are several potential ways to do this. Probably the simplest is to do some variation of the following:

1. Join the domain
2. Log in as the new domain user, and log out
3. Log back in as an account with admin rights on the box (but not either the old or new user accounts)
4. Go to control panel, system, advanced
5. in User Profiles, click the Settings button
6. Select the local user's profile, click on Copy To, and browse to the new domain user's c:\documents and settings\username folder.
7. Click OK.
8. Click the Change button in Permitted to use Select the domain\username account you just copied