This is a real problem for me. I've got no qualms about doing things in an
unsupported fashion, as I feel I know what I'm doing. However, our
customers won't have any of it. Especially as we won't be around to help
support it, etc.
Another example is replicating NDNCs. Apparently, I can't script the
population of mSDS-NC-Replica-Locations, I can only get bridgeheads that
don't, for example, run DNS to replicate the DNS NDNCs by using the
applicable NTDSUTIL options. I doubt NTDSUTIL is doing anything different
to my script (in this one instance of course) but the DSE said that my
script was unsupported.
I'd be interested in knowing why some of these switches in the answer file
only work under select circumstances. As it seems that doing so is going to
force some people to do one of two things:
-- Perform "unsupported" tasks to automate their DC promotions
-- Write a number of pre- and post-promotion scripts, which can be a pain
as it adds additional complexity to the automation environment, etc.
[I hope] Longhorn should have better support for these options as the new
DCPROMO UI alows you to select GC, etc.
--Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:32 AM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC
in forest
Granted ... though perhaps a moot point to those (on the consumer side of
the fence) capable of using such a tweak since proving such usage is
challenging to say the least.
Aside, since its purpose has been well served twice in as many days and on
2
unrelated topics, maybe it could be considered a feature suggestion ...
--
Dean Wells
MSEtechnology
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Shirley
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building
first DC in forest
Touching schema.ini would qualify as very not supported ...
-B
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Paul Williams wrote:
> Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forestIt might
be worth looking at the %systemroot%\system32\schema.ini file again. I
just had a poke around in there after reading Dean's answer to your
question yesterday and the first section, the [DEFAULTROOTDOMAIN]
section is setting nTMixedMode. You can change that to 0 (for native)
and try adding mSDS-Behavior-Version and setting it to 2.
>
> I don't know if that will work, but you're probably in a position to
test this...
>
>
> --Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:39 AM
> Subject: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building
first DC in forest
>
>
> According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223757/en-us the
SetForestVersion entry in the dcpromo answer file can only be used to
set FFL to 1 or 0 when building a new forest.
>
> Is this correct? I'd like to automate the transition to FFL=2 when
building the first DC in a forest (without a script).
>
> Perhaps another change request for Longhorn? :)
>
> neil
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