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This is true, no &quot;Home&quot; versions of Vista can be added to a domain, like Windows XP Home Edition.
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This is true, no "Home" versions of Vista can be added to a domain, like Windows XP Home Edition.

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Is there a workaround or is it a case of upgrade?
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Is there a workaround or is it a case of upgrade?

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Many thanks for your answers. I contacted Microsoft Netherlands whoe told me that if I paid an additional ¬ 250 I could easily upgrade to Vista Business and there was no other solution. I hace since bought an OEM Vista Business and shall try to upgrade from this. I'll keep you posted!
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Many thanks for your answers. I contacted Microsoft Netherlands whoe told me that if I paid an additional ¬ 250 I could easily upgrade to Vista Business and there was no other solution. I hace since bought an OEM Vista Business and shall try to upgrade from this. I'll keep you posted!

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I have a new laptop with Vista Home Premiun installed and want to connect now and again to a SBS 2003 server. I have been told that this is not possible because of Active Directory and I will have to upgrade to Vista Business. Can this be true?
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I have a new laptop with Vista Home Premiun installed and want to connect now and again to a SBS 2003 server. I have been told that this is not possible because of Active Directory and I will have to upgrade to Vista Business. Can this be true?

Vista Premium and Active Directory

Windows Vista is an operating system created by Microsoft as the successor to Windows XP. It was intended for PCs, workstations and laptops, and shares the same code base as its successor, Windows 7. New features included an updated graphical user interface (GUI) and visual style dubbed Aero, a new search component called Windows Search, redesigned networking, audio, print and display subsystems, and new multimedia tools. Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs.

Windows Vista

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).