Re: Win2008 Forest Functional level and trusts with Windows 2000 mixed mode

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DFL and FFL strictly enabled advanced AD features (such as fine-grained password policies) and limit which OS new DCs can have. In short, raising to WS08 should have no impact.

Here are some links you can use to get more information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816942.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816837.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770842.aspx

Hope this helps.
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"Michelle Jay" <mic_jay98_nsp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:udS4rfoOJHA.4576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,
Eventually I guess I will come about to test this out in my lab but I thought I might do a quick ping if anyone has done this and can comment:

My setup comprises 2 forests:
Forest (A) is Windows 2008 based currently in Windows *2003* functional level

Forest (B) is on Windows 2000 servers and in mixed mode but schema extended to support a Windows 2003 DC

Two way trusts between domains in Forests A to domains in Forest B. Cannot do forest level trust given the old functional mode. This was for IIFP, InterOrg public folder replications and move-mailbox exercises between the two forests.

The question is:...
If I go ahead and raise my Forest (A) to complete "Windows Server 2008" forest functional level will this highest level break anything in the domain trusts and IIFP, InterOrg rep (public folder pull and free/busy) and move-mailboxes? So far in the above setup, all these inter-forest exercises work.

I want to raise to full Win2008 functional level to leverage on granular domain account policies capabilities in Win2008 ADDS.

Many thanks and cheers! :-)



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