Also, I would recommend you test the recovery process out after enabling the recycle bin, if sticking with 2008 R2 as it will be much easier if you know how to do it in a pinch. I did see demo'd with 2012 R2 it becomes exposed in the AD Administrative Center GUI, along with FGPP, which is really nice.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831702.aspx From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Forest Functional Level change It's on our list, just hasn't made it to the top... yet. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 8:57 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Forest Functional Level change You should be fine. However, I would recommend that you upgrade. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 1:31 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Forest Functional Level change 2010 SP1 UR6 -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 1:15 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Forest Functional Level change Which version of Exchange? Including SPs and URs. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 12:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Forest Functional Level change I'd like to enable the AD recycle bin functionality in our domain and in order to do that will need to raise the functional level from 2008 to 2008R2. So far I haven't run into anything to worry about with that but wanted to ask if there were any gotchas anyone had run into during the process. I've done a few of these in the past with no issues but we've since added Exchange to the mix so that's my main concern. Single forest, single domain, multiple sites. -------------------- Melvin Backus | Sr. Systems Analyst | Byers Engineering Company | 404.497.1565 Service Desk | 404-497-1599 | http://servicedesk.byers.com -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't.
