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They said it couldn’t be done… NT4 in a 2012 R2 FFL6 Domain

by @ 6:09 pm on 4/14/2015. Filed under tech

I now have a Windows NT 4.0 Member Server joined and able to log into a 2012 R2 FFL6 Domain.

Don’t ask me why… If I told you I would have to kill you.

I will see about writing up how I worked through the WireShark traces to figure out what needed to be tweaked to get it to work or perhaps just the changes I needed to make to get it to work.

The most fun was getting NT4 running in 2012 R2 HyperV and not being able to use a mouse. Took me back a-ways (like almost 20 years) using all keyboard controls to whip around in NT4. But then most of my Enterprise (thousands of servers) NT4 work was done pre-RDP/TS days via remote command line through RCMD. You know remote command line management like they are pushing in PowerShell now like it is a new thing. 😉

It is just spectacular how fast NT4 runs in HyperV with no need for integration services… Oh and on a 1GB system disk that has 800MB free.

 

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