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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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The features of AD DS 2022

AD DS's improvements are found in its forest and domain functional levels. Upgrading the operating system or adding domain controllers that run Windows Server 2022 to an existing AD infrastructure isn't going to upgrade the forest and domain functional levels automatically. We need to upgrade them manually once all older domain controllers are decommissioned. When it comes to forest and domain functional levels, there is a big difference in Windows Server 2022. Up to the Windows Server 2016 release, there have been new forest and domain functional levels. But starting from Windows Server 2019 there are NO new forest or domain functional levels.

The most recent forest and domain functional levels we can choose are still from Windows Server 2016. But what does this mean? If the improvements are bound to forest and domain functional levels, does this mean there are no new features on AD DS 2022? Yes, that's correct: there are no new AD DS...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis