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The raise domain functional level window appears.
Domain functional level issues. They also determine which windows server operating systems you can run on domain controllers in the domain or forest. Rather than starting from scratch with this lab i decided to test lowering the functional levels from server 2016 to server 2012r2. Sign in to the domain controller holding the pdc emulator fsmo role. Functional levels determine the available active directory domain services ad ds domain or forest capabilities.
The underlying issue is due to the addition of the aes hashes 128 and 256 introduced. I was able to. The changes only add the aes hashes during the one dfl change from 2003 to any higher level 08 08r2 12 12r2 domain functional level. Having compromised a windows domain one of the things i like to do that i think adds real.
In 2003 functional level the kerberos key distribution centre kdc used either rc4 hmac 128 bit or des cbc md5 56 bit for kerberos encryption however when moving to 2008 domain functional level or higher you upgrade the key distribution centre kdc to use advanced kerberos encryption which uses aes 128 and aes 256 encryption. Open active directory domains and trusts domain msc. To prevent these issues from arising a new dc must be at the same level or greater than the functional level of the domain or forest. For example if you raise the domain functional level to windows server 2012 you will not be able to promote a server that is running windows server 2008 to domain controller.
To reduce the risk you can refer to the best practices section of the following article before raising the functional level. Introduction this is a brief and high level blog on the windows domain functional level dfl. In this lab i had the domain and forest functional level set to server 2016. However functional levels do not affect which operating systems you can run on workstations and member servers that are joined to the domain or forest.
In the left navigation pane right click the domain for which you want to raise the functional level and then click raise domain functional level. The second restriction for which there is a limited exception on windows server 2008 r2 is that once upgraded the domain or forest functional level cannot later be downgraded.
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