Upgrade Domain Functional Level From 2003 To 2008

Select the domain functional level in the drop down box click the raise button then ok twice.

Upgrade domain functional level from 2003 to 2008. The default selected forest functional level is windows server 2003. We have a number of other member servers still running windows 2003. Be careful with this because if you raise the domain level to high and still have old 2000 nt domain controllers in your domain they will became unavailable.

After raising domain and forest functional levels from 2003 to server 2008 r2 we started to get a few event id 15 on the domain controllers for a couple of service accounts. Now it s time to raise the domain and forest functional level to the latest and greatest 2012 r2. All of the default ad ds features all of the features from the windows server 2003 domain functional level and the following features are available.

In this article i will be showing you how to upgrade the function level of the forest and domain to a higher level. Right click the domain name and choose raise domain functional level. Windows server 2008 domain functional level features.

On aug 19 2014 at 01 34 utc. Assistance with robocopy targeting. Functional levels are set at these default levels to give you the option of adding windows 2000 or windows server 2003 based domain controllers to your new windows server 2008 forest.

We also have some intranet servers and other net iis applications that us ad for. After you create a forest root domain the domain functional level for each domain that you add to the windows server 2008 forest is set to windows 2000 native. Event id 15 s come through.

Upgrading the pdc of a windows nt 4 0 domain as a child domain in an existing windows server 2003 forest where interim forest functional levels had been configured by using the ldp exe file or the adsiedit msc file permits security groups to use linked value replication after the operating system version upgrade. Distributed file system dfs replication support for the windows server 2003 system volume sysvol dfs replication support provides more robust and detailed replication of sysvol contents. Raise domain and forest functional level 2012 r2 from 2003 r2.