Re: Raising DFL to highest -

Domain Functional Level is only concerned with what types of domain
controllers can participate in replication, so you can't have any more NT4
BDCs or 2000 domain controllers at the highest DFL. Your clients will still
be able to authenticate as usual...probably won't even notice the change.

HTH

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"mehul" <mehul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello, just a quick quetion: If I raise the DFL of my domain to highest
> (win
> 2003), will my NT clients still be able to authenticate?, Also, we still
> have
> several legacy applications on NT 4.0 IIS 4.0 using Windows
> Authnetication.
> will it continue to work? (most of them are SP6a, but some might be SP4).
>
> Any links to documents that I should refer to in this regard?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Mehul.


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