RE: The target domain is not native mode - Query

Hello Pierre,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

First of all, I'd like to thanks Emilio for his kindly notifications.

Actually, if you have set Windows 2003 domain with native mode, you cannot
have Windows NT 4 BDCs existing. However, it will not affect that you can
access the resources in Windows NT4 domain or Windows NT4 servers.

As far as I know, in Windows Server 2003, the functional level of a domain
or forest defines the set of advanced Windows Server 2003 Active Directory
features that are available in that domain or forest. The functional level
of a domain or forest also defines the set of Windows operating systems
that can run on the domain controllers in that domain or forest.

For more information about Windows Server 2003 Domain Functional Levels,
please refer to the following article that should be helpful:

Functional Levels Background Information
<http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/4a589ca2-b572-48cd-9
4d2-7d5b0c817f411033.mspx>

Hope that helps!

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Partner Support
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| Subject: The target domain is not native mode - Query
| Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:18:54 +0530
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Greetings all!
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| I am currently working on our NT4 Domain to W2K3 AD Domain migration
project and will be using ADMT3. I have all the necessary things set up
such as trust relationships (2-way), etc. I am now trying to do a trial
migration of one of our NT4 global groups using the Group Account
Migration Wizard. However after selecting the Domains and servers I get
the following message:
| THE TARGET DOMAIN IS NOT NATIVE MODE.
Does that mean that I must set my W2K3 AD domain to native mode?
|
| Once I set the W2k3 AD domain to native mode would I still be able to
access my NT4 Domain server via the current 2-way trust relationship?
|
| What should I set the Domain Funtional Level to? Windows 2000 native or
Windows Server 2003?
|
| Would a migrated user still be able to access both his/her data on the
NT4 Domain server and W2K3 AD server?
|
| I understand that member servers still in the NT4 domain would not be
able to be accessed via the W2K3 AD domain running in native mode?
|
| I would appreciate comments re above. In future I shall be posting more
queries as I continue working on the migration project!
|
| Thanks
| Pierre


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