RE: [ActiveDir] Domain Native Mode

[Salandra, Justin A.]

Title: Domain Native Mode

You can’t back out once you make the change to native mode, it is permanent.     -----Original Message----- From: Mayet, Yusuf Y [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:24 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Domain Native Mode   Our company is in the process of deploying E2K3 into our environment. After some understanding of the product is that we would require the domain to be in at least W2K Native Mode. Enough said we have started a process of informing all people about this move but the powers that be want me to provide a answer around the following: §       Risk involved with the mode change §       Back-out procedure (I honestly believe that if you go that far than stay with new change and work with the problems and resolve) §       Lab environment testing the back out procedure. So I decided to test this rollback in the lab Built the following: §       Empty Root §       Child Domain (switch mode) What I did was I kept an existing NT4 BDC then switched the mode I went through the logs and made a few changes on the PDC Emulator and the changes were synchronized with the PDC Emulator. What baffles me is the fact that MS says that all communications break after the switch. Will this problem only appear after a few days or should it be appearing immediately??? Using ADSI Edit I searched on the domain partition to note the value after the change and I picked up an attribute called ntMixed Domain: 0 The value prior to the change was 1 and moved to 0 Am I correct in saying that the information is held on the Domain Partition? Should I be restoring the entire forest or just the domain in specific to go back to Mixed Mode? Guys please bear with my questions as they are all far and in between but it's either this or Hotdog Stand which I was told to put up if this change is not successful. And I don't think I am cut out for a Hotdog stand yet ...grin grin...   Thanks again in advance Yusuf __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For information about the Standard Bank group visit our web site <www.standardbank.co.za> __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relating to the official business of Standard Bank Group Limited  is proprietary to the group. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. Standard Bank does not own and endorse any other content. Views and opinions are those of the sender unless clearly stated as being that of the group. The person addressed in the e-mail is the sole authorised recipient. Please notify the sender immediately if it has unintentionally reached you and do not read, disclose or use the content in any way. Standard Bank can not assure that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that it is free of errors, virus, interception or interference. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________