Active Directory W2K8 and W2K3 working with IPV6

This is the Peer-to-Peer Networking forum. Anyone on this forum who knows anything about Active Directory knows it because (1) he/she looked it up (most likely via a web search or by searching the Microsoft newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us) or (2) he/she in addition to being interested in P2P Networking coincidentally happens to be interested in Active Directory. I fall into category (1). Searching the web and the Microsoft Newsgroups before posting on a forum is a good idea since it is likely your question has already been asked somewhere. Active Directory even has its own newsgroup -- microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory which is where future questions about Active Directory should be posted.

The query "Active Directory IPv6" on the Microsoft newsgroup web interface turns up the post "Does Windows 2K3 Active Directory Support IPv6?" as its first result (see http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=%22Active+Directory%22+IPv6&dg=&cat=en_US_d02fc761-3f6b-402c-82f6-ba1a8875c1a7&lang=en&cr=&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us).

That post links to http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/1e7541f2-1134-45b5-871a-bbb3ac7a94151033.mspx?mfr=true

which lists Active Directory among the server applications that are unsupported in a Win 2K3 IPv6 only configuration.

Windows Server 2008 will support all server roles in an IPv6 only environment (unless of course the server role is reliant upon an IPv4 only technology) so Active Directory and LDAP (which appears to be what you're interested in) ought to work.

Cheers,

Eliot

EliotFlannery-MSFT at 2007-9-28 >