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I have used Windows PCs at work extensively. I had no idea that 'Domain join' could mean 'create an offline account'.

• amaccuish 7y ago
  > I had no idea that 'Domain join' could mean 'create an offline account'. It doesn't. It means, or at least it should, join the PC to a Active Directory/NT4 domain.
• klodolph 7y ago
  “Administered”. I’m not talking about local admin rights, I’m talking about the people in your IT department who administer a fleet of Windows PCs. It doesn’t normally mean “create offline account”, but domain accounts are not the same as Microsoft accounts, and domain accounts are a normal part of enterprise deployments. So it does normally mean that you can create a non-Microsoft account. Yes, it’s stupid. Not defending it, just trying to explain what “join domain” means.