Moving from Mixed to Native Mode.

[Tommy Vercetti]

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.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

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

 

[Jerold Schulman]

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.

See tip 3963 and links in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com