I am looking into setting up Windows domain environment at home for personal use. Mostly to be able to get familiar with enterprise technologies that require domain authentication.
The plan is to have 1 server running Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition. It will be domain controller and will also host some services and a couple VMs. VMs will also run Windows Server 2012 and will be members of that domain.
I use a laptop as my workstation and sometimes work from remote locations. I would like to add laptop to domain but I don't completely understand (and couldn't find a detailed document from Microsoft) the implications of working on computer joined to domain when domain controller is not available.
All I figured out so far is if you ever logged in to computer with domain credentials they become cached locally and you are supposed to be able to log in using domain credentials even if domain is not available. But what if I have some services running on my laptop under some other domain account? What happens to them?
Are domain credentials only cached for some limited period of times? Are there any other implications?
I guess what I am looking for is some kind of knowledge base article from Microsoft that describes in details all implications of working disconnected from domain.
Does anyone know of such article?