HT5628 I installed Windows 8 before it was supported, with Bootcamp 4. What benefits are there in upgrading to Bootcamp 5?

Everything seems to be working, although there may be features I haven't tried yet that don't work, such as Bluetooth or the Apple IR.

Boot Camp 5 contains the most recent drivers and specially designed for your Mac mini and Windows 8. Note that Boot Camp 4 drivers aren't compatible officially with Windows 8 even if they are working correctly, so you may get a better performance if you upgrade to the most recent drivers and you will get all the hardware working. Download and install Boot Camp 5 into Windows from Apple page > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1638

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My company has one mac user with a Macbook Air, we have a Windows 2008 r2 domain.
I'm wondering if it is worth joining him to the domain, what benefits are there for a mac user?
We use Exchange 2007 and change our passwords every 90 days.
One concern is when the user is out of the office the cached password can become out of sync with the domain passowrd.
This is an anoyance and can be confusing.
Any advice would be much appriciated.
Thanks.

Greetings.
I am a 1 of 2 Mac users in a company that otherwise is using Windoz. I do not join the domain though, because I really see no reason to. I can get to the printers, to the web, to the Exchange and to the SharePoint. Though mostly I need SVN and cloud services anyway.
Thus no real reason. Unless there is some specific stuff that is setup on the network that is only available to windows machines authenticated with a certificate and joined to the windows domain, like for instance a split tunnel VPN or something along those lines, there is really no need to be "on the domain" connected to the LAN works just fine if not better.
HOWEVER
There is that annoying bit about the passwords.
Some sysadmins like to setup password expiration, thus forcing us mortals to rotate three (almost identical) passwords every three months. In this case you just need to setup a reminder on your calendar that prompts you a week in advance to change your password.
How to change your password? You have options:
OPTION 1
Now. If your Mac has OS pre Lion (no higher then 10.6) then you have old samba installed by default and that comes with "smbpasswd" command. To change the password just open the mighty mac terminal and type:
smbpasswd -r YOUR_WINDOWS_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_IP -U username
Then the output will be something like this:
Old SMB password: ********
New SMB password: *********
Retype new SMB password: *********
Password changed for user username
Of cause replace the YOUR_WINDOWS_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_IP with the IP of your domain controller. Do not know your domain controller IP? run Google "net lookup master" command. I think older macs have it. (not sure)
if you are running Lion, you do not have smbpasswd command. I think Apple either wrote their implimentation of samba or just use some stripped down wersion of it, not sure. It has to do with some dreary and borring licensing thing.
You can either install samba yourself form sources... Thus if you are brave and adventurous here is a walk through http://forums.sonos.com/showthread.php?t=24022 or you can use optopn two:
OPTION 2
If your company has not gone to the cloud hosting and still use the old-school home grown Exchange hosted in the broom closet, you might have a web version of the M$ Exchange running. The URLs usually something like: https://owa.yourcompanyname.com. If you have that then the sysadmins may have the password change feature enabled there. Login to your web interface for Outlook (OWA), In the top right corner choose the "Change Password" feature and use it.
If this is not an option because either your sysadmin is not running OWA or the password change feature is not enabled you have still have options.
OPTION 3:
If you are working for a company that loves Windows and their products you might have an M$ Office installed on your Mac. Thus you might have Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) utility. If not you can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client. Then remote desktop to a machine in your office and you will get to it's login screen where you can change the windows domain password. (This requires a machine to which you can remote desktop)
OPTION 4:
Walk up to any Windowz box that no one is using, CTRL + ALT + DEL one time and this will give you the login screen, you can change password form there.
OPTION 5:
Ask your sysadmin to setup your password to never expire, or add the policy for your user so that you can change it in OWA (see option 2)

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Was your Bootcamp info.plist manipulated to change any options?

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SchafHund wrote:
the computer model is a 13" a1278 mackbook pro mid 2011 and its windows 7 premium.
32 bit or 63 bit Windows?
From the Boot Camp System Requirements page located here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634, there is no mid 2011 13" Macbook Pro.
Here are your choices and the correct Windows Support software version to use:
MacBook Pro
(13-inch, Late 2011)
5
5
4
MacBook Pro
(13-inch, Early 2011)
5
5
4

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Go to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs (Win XP) or Programs and Features (later)
Remove all of these items in the following order:
iTunes
Apple Software Update
Apple Mobile Device Support (if this won't uninstall move on to the next item)
Bonjour
Apple Application Support
Reboot, download iTunes, then reinstall, either using an account with administrative rights, or right-clicking the downloaded installer and selecting Run as Administrator.
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Hello,
I'm having a issue installing Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro with Retina (mid 2012), it has no CD drive so I'm able to use Disk-On-Key only.
I've create a partition of 35GB in BootCamp for installing the Windows, then the Bootcamp is restart my machine, and bring me to the windows installer
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I would add some pics, but my installer is in Hebrew lang.
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Re: can i install windows for pc on my mac or do i need the windows for mac?

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I install windows 8 professorial, can u tell now how to run mac os there is no other option to start it.

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Press and hold the option key when you power up your computer. Then select OSx to boot.

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Itunes will not open, message says library was created with earlier version. what now?,

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Unless you just attempted to downgrade iTunes to an earlier verison this is probably a sign of a corrupt library.
Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
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When I open a new window, none of the UI changes I make regarding add-ons are there.

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HT5628 I installed Windows 8 before it was supported, with Bootcamp 4. What benefits are there in upgrading to Bootcamp 5?

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