Our employees use their laptops both as personal laptops and as work laptops. When they're at work they sign in to the domain and when they're at home they sign in to their laptop directly.
The problem with Windows 8 is that it's basically forcing them to remember to type JOE-LAPTOP\Joe
when they're at home and then DOMAIN\Joe
when they're at work. Ideally, I'd like the user switcher to just show these two accounts side-by-side and allow the user to click on the one they want, enter their password and be off to the races.
Is this possible? I've been playing around with tutorials like this and editing the registry / running logon scripts and yet these accounts refuse to show up side-by-side.
Similarly, this way they can install whatever programs they like on their 'personal' side while leaving the domain side under the control of the server
doesn't hold true. Applications installed would be available to all users and any Computer Configuration GPO settings would be applied to the computer, regardless of who is logged in.