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Andrew,<br />
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I created the 'ESX Admins' group, is that the right group? <br />
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I did not set permissions, when i go there, my domain is not listed from the drop down.
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Andrew,

I created the 'ESX Admins' group, is that the right group?

I did not set permissions, when i go there, my domain is not listed from the drop down.

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it is, but you need to follow the article, step by step and slowly...
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it is, but you need to follow the article, step by step and slowly...

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Everything looks good<br />
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I am just missing the part where it says<br />
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&nbsp;Use the pull-down menu to change the “Domain:” to the name of the AD domain, find the user in the list, click “Add”, and then click “OK”.
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Everything looks good

I am just missing the part where it says

 Use the pull-down menu to change the “Domain:” to the name of the AD domain, find the user in the list, click “Add”, and then click “OK”.

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not part of the domain, is there a domain account created for the ESXi host server in AD ?
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not part of the domain, is there a domain account created for the ESXi host server in AD ?

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Cobra25, <br />
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I would highly advise against joining the ESX server to the Domiain. <br />
If the server looses domain trust no one will be able to administer the servers on it.<br />
Also if your domain gets compromised it will be harder to get into the VM server. <br />
This is not a good practice. Both my ESX and Hyper-V servers are <b>not</b> domain joined.
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Cobra25,

I would highly advise against joining the ESX server to the Domiain.
If the server looses domain trust no one will be able to administer the servers on it.
Also if your domain gets compromised it will be harder to get into the VM server.
This is not a good practice. Both my ESX and Hyper-V servers are not domain joined.

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@Spaz_IT the root account still works!
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Agreed, IMO it would be easier to compromise the system with it being AD joined.
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Agreed, IMO it would be easier to compromise the system with it being AD joined.

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Ill still have the root account which is fine.
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Ill still have the root account which is fine.

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I have a single ESX 5.5 server and i want to use AD for logins via the vsphere client.<br />
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I joined the host on the domain successfully, but i cannot login, it says &quot;windows session credentails cannot be used to log into this server enter a username and password&quot;
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I have a single ESX 5.5 server and i want to use AD for logins via the vsphere client.

I joined the host on the domain successfully, but i cannot login, it says "windows session credentails cannot be used to log into this server enter a username and password"

Vmware esx 5.5 AD authentication

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