Before I do this, I'm hoping to find out if there are any caveats I should be aware of when un-joining a Windows 7 machine from our SBS 2000 domain.
This machine is the personal home computer of one of our company officers, which I am setting up for VPN access to domain resources. After setting up the VPN and joining the domain, we discovered that some apps wouldn't run on Win 7. Since I'm going to have to use XP Mode Virtual Machine anyway, it makes sense (to me, at least) to join the VM to the domain and un-join the Win 7 machine, so all of the business apps will run on a (virtually) separate machine.
My main worry is that I don't want to mess up the personal local user profile for the boss!
Has anyone done this? Will the local (Homegroup I guess) accounts be unchanged and accessible as before the join?
TIA for any opinions!
This machine is the personal home computer of one of our company officers, which I am setting up for VPN access to domain resources. After setting up the VPN and joining the domain, we discovered that some apps wouldn't run on Win 7. Since I'm going to have to use XP Mode Virtual Machine anyway, it makes sense (to me, at least) to join the VM to the domain and un-join the Win 7 machine, so all of the business apps will run on a (virtually) separate machine.
My main worry is that I don't want to mess up the personal local user profile for the boss!
Has anyone done this? Will the local (Homegroup I guess) accounts be unchanged and accessible as before the join?
TIA for any opinions!