I was going to post something about failing on the first task by installing Windows, but you kind of beat me to it.
I dealt with something similar to this problem a few years ago. By default, Windows turns on the firewall. The firewall prevents any sort of remote administration, even when joined to a domain. I finally put in a domain policy to disable the firewall when connected directly to the domain, but, really, Windows? I knew you were supposed to be "zero administration", but I didn't realize that that was an enforced policy.