Domain Functional Level And Forest Functional Level
0 0 windows 2000 native 0 1 windows 2000 mixed 2 0 windows 2003 3 0 windows 2008 4 0 windows 2008 r2 5 0 windows 2012.
Domain functional level and forest functional level. They also determine which windows server operating systems you can run on domain controllers in the domain or forest. Get domain functional level using dsquery. Under the general tab the domain functional level and forest functional level is displayed on the screen.
From the administrative tools menu select active directory domains and trusts or active directory users and computers. Get adforest gets an active directory forest. The forest functional level is set to 2 by using any method.
Die folgenden tabelle stellt dar wie sich die windows server versionen bezüglich domain functional levels geändert haben. However functional levels do not affect which operating systems you can run on workstations and member servers that are joined to the domain or forest. Right click the root domain then select properties.
There are some explanations with the functions up to windows server 2008 r2 and some on the differences between windows server 2008 r2 and windows server 2012. Functional levels determine the available active directory domain services ad ds domain or forest capabilities. Domain functional levels and forest functional levels.
Option 1 from admin tools. Open up powershell and run following cmdlets. Dsquery dc lab dc local scope base attr msds behavior version ntmixeddomain.
In this scenario the domain controllers block the transition to the forest functional level until all of the domains that are in the local area network are configured to native mode and the required attribute change is made in the security group scopes. Then get addomain format list domainmode get adforest format list forestmode. Today i recognized that it is not easy to find a comprehensive summary table about active directory domain and forest functional levels operating mode on the internet.