OT: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

[neil.ruston]

Title: Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest

LOL.  Yep.  I'm adverse to such things as I'm fed up of the damned English, Scottish, Irish, South African and Australian (and there's a damned cheek) meet'g and bleh'g at me...  ;-)   O dear - we'll be seeing posts in Welsh next :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: 03 August 2006 13:43 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest Ah nice, you got there before me with a better answer!  :P   I'm poking around in there now, as I'm in a similar position to Neil a the mo'.   Question: Can I provide schema.ini as an argument to the promotion or unattended or do I need to mod the default file prior to running the unattended script?     > mint-sauce-fearing friend   LOL.  Yep.  I'm adverse to such things as I'm fed up of the damned English, Scottish, Irish, South African and Australian (and there's a damned cheek) meet'g and bleh'g at me...  ;-)     ----- Original Message ----- From: Dean Wells To: Send - AD mailing list Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:30 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest That’s v. close my mint-sauce-fearing friend but it’s likely that that will set only the dom. func. level to K3 native (though to be honest I’ve not tried).  So, since forests tend to drag domains with them, functional level wise, (i.e. when a new domain is created within an existing forest), we simply need to tell the forest func. level to seed itself with a value of 2 … see my previous post for instructions on how to do that. -- Dean Wells MSEtechnology * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msetechnology.com   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Williams Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:18 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest   It might be worth looking at the %systemroot%\system32\schema.ini file again.  I just had a poke around in there after reading Dean's answer to your question yesterday and the first section, the [DEFAULTROOTDOMAIN] section is setting nTMixedMode.  You can change that to 0 (for native) and try adding mSDS-Behavior-Version and setting it to 2.   I don't know if that will work, but you're probably in a position to test this...     --Paul   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:39 AM Subject: [ActiveDir] Setting FFL=2 automatically when building first DC in forest   According to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223757/en-us the SetForestVersion entry in the dcpromo answer file can only be used to set FFL to 1 or 0 when building a new forest. Is this correct? I'd like to automate the transition to FFL=2 when building the first DC in a forest (without a script). Perhaps another change request for Longhorn? :) neil PLEASE READ: The information contained in this email is confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not an intended recipient of this email please notify the sender immediately and delete your copy from your system. You must not copy, distribute or take any further action in reliance on it. Email is not a secure method of communication and Nomura International plc ('NIplc') will not, to the extent permitted by law, accept responsibility or liability for (a) the accuracy or completeness of, or (b) the presence of any virus, worm or similar malicious or disabling code in, this message or any attachment(s) to it. If verification of this email is sought then please request a hard copy. 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