Domain Controller Login Locally
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Edit default domain controller group policy.
Domain controller login locally. Let s take a look at a little trick to login windows with a local user account instead of a domain account. To get started open gpmc and edit the following settings. Switch on the computer and when you come to the windows login screen click on switch user.
Instead of showing icons for all the users with accounts on the pc it now only shows two icons. This is because of the default group policy configuration which is applied whenever a stand alone server is promoted to a domain controller. The domain controllers in the domain share the default domain controllers group policy object gpo.
By default when the user enters username on the welcome screen of a domain joined machine and there is also a local account with the same name the domain account will take precedence. When you grant an account the allow logon locally right you are allowing that account to log on locally to all domain controllers in the domain. How to logon to a domain controller locally.
By default a domain user is not allowed to log on locally on the domain controller. To allow users to log in locally to domain controllers we need to edit the domain controller group policy which is located under the domain controllers ou. This configuration of group policy can be modified so that a domain user account can log on locally on the domain controller.
The domain controllers in the domain share the default domain controllers group policy object gpo.