No I am afraid not all laptops will come with the right version . You need one of the following:
Vista Business
Vista Business N
Vista Enterprise
Vista Ultimate
A good comparison site:
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_02.asp
Bob
A legal assistant in my office just bought a new laptop with Vista home installed. I am trying to get it onto the company server. The issue is when I try to add her to companyweb i.e. //servername/connecttocomputer
I get this error:
"To join the small buisness server domain, you must be a member of the local administrators security group on this computer."
I have tried giving her administrator permissions via the server manager and the account she is using is set to admin on her own comp. I do not know what exactly it wants. I am new to the server side of things and the regular admin has given up suggesting we just dual boot xp (he is an attorney and is way to busy to do IT stuff all day) I think the dual boot idea is ghetto, so what do I need to try here? I am new to Vista (first time on it today) so I am sure Ive left out important details, let me know what iunfo you need and or if this connection is even possible.
Thanks

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