D'OH! Apparently I did it in the wrong order. You should raise the domain levels *first*, and *then* the forest level.
Hmmm ... well, in my case it all worked out. Something to be aware of, tho ... On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > So I am about done testing upgrading my test environment from Win2008 R2 > to Win2012 R2. All my DCs are now Win2012 R2; all the DCDIAG logs look > clear; all my DFSR errors cleared up (once I learned about the DFSRDIAG > POLLAD command). > > So I went to do the final step, raising the forest and domain levels. I > raised the forest level from Win2008 R2 to Win2012 R2; that went fine. When > I went to raise the domain levels (I have a parent and child domain > structure), both had already been raised to Win2012 R2 levels. > > I'm presuming that happened when I raised the forest level. Is it supposed > to automatically raise the domain levels at the same time the forest level > is raised? This seems odd to me. > > Oh, I see no errors, and I was going to raise the domain levels anyway. > I'm just a bit confused about how (or why) the domain levels rose when the > forest levels rose. Is that normal? > > Thanks > > >
