Joining a Windows DC to a Samba AD Domain

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 15:45 +0200, Ralph Boehme wrote:
> Hi folks!
>  From all I know it is generally not recommended to join Windows DCs
> to to a Samba AD domain, is it?
> I've just came across the following two pages on our wiki:
> <
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2008_/_2008_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD><https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Windows_Server_2012_/_2012_R2_DC_to_a_Samba_AD
> >
> To avoid giving bad guidance I've added two prominent warnings at the
> top of the pages. Is this sensible? Is this correct? Thoughts?

It is meant to work, it just isn't typical.  Often used for migrations
out. 
The WMI requirement seems to have gone away.
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