Re: Moving from Mixed to Native Mode.

From: Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP] (cwshultz_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 12:57:16 -0400

Tommy,

I would suggest that you did not search this NG very well if you found
nothing ;-)

Native Mode or Mixed Mode has to do with one thing and one thing alone: can
you have functioning WIN NT 4.0 BDCs in your environment or not. In Native
Mode the answer is no. In Mixed Mode the answer is yes.

Granted, this is a bit simplified in that there are a few other things that
become available to you when you make the one time / one way switch from
Mixed Mode to Native Mode ( for example, group nesting is now available and
Universal Security Groups are now available ). However, that is it.

Do a search for anything from Danny ( I believe Danny Sanders, could be
Danny Saunders - Sorry, Danny! ) as he has a pretty complete listing of all
the things that are NOT affected by this switch.

HTH,

Cary

"Tommy Vercetti" <aREM_OVEjalal@bushschool.tamu.edu> wrote in message
news:uQZqt2LSEHA.2200@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I have a Windows 2000 Server enviornment setup with 2 W2K Server domain
> controllers running in mixed mode. I want to change to Native mode. I
> tried doing it on my test servers, and it's a very straight forward
> procedure. But how can I test that after I have made the change things
are
> working right. Just because everything seems to work, doesn't mean it is
> working. Might run into problems later on, which are not visible right
now.
>
> I have searched, but cannot find any detailed information about Mixed and
> Native mode. They all talk about the benefits of it and how to actually
do
> it. But none of them talk about the details, what it changes, and how to
> test that things are working right.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank You.
>
>

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