Active Directory with IPv6

Hi All,
Is anyone familiar with Active Directory and IPv6? According to this note:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx it
appears that AD is not supported with Windows 2003 Server IPv6. Does anyone
know if Windows 2008 Server does support it?
I am planning on setting up an IPv6 environment with active directory.
Ideally I would want one of these machines to be the Domain Controller and
the other ones to be part of that domain. All machines should connect with
each other through IPv6.
Thanks.

Hello jorge,

You can use it, but have a look on known problems/solutions in some scenarios:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...1-587e403d58c6

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive...-sbs-2008.aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=952842

Also see to disable it complete, if needed:
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/paulb...dows-2008.aspx

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi All,
> Is anyone familiar with Active Directory and IPv6? According to this
> note:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx it
> appears that AD is not supported with Windows 2003 Server IPv6. Does
> anyone
> know if Windows 2008 Server does support it?
> I am planning on setting up an IPv6 environment with active directory.
> Ideally I would want one of these machines to be the Domain Controller
> and
> the other ones to be part of that domain. All machines should connect
> with
> each other through IPv6.
> Thanks.

From your article (First I have seen this) it appears you will be forced
into using both ipv4 and ipv6. Why is it so important to use IPv6 only?
The internet has very few IPv6 sites so you will need to use ipv4 on your
clients unless you aren't going to allow public access.

What is your goal of ipv6 only?

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Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2008, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
Microsoft's Thrive IT Pro of the Month - June 2009

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"Jorge" <> wrote in message
news:88A5EF83-7854-4559-8D7E-...
> Hi All,
> Is anyone familiar with Active Directory and IPv6? According to this note:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx it
> appears that AD is not supported with Windows 2003 Server IPv6. Does
> anyone
> know if Windows 2008 Server does support it?
> I am planning on setting up an IPv6 environment with active directory.
> Ideally I would want one of these machines to be the Domain Controller and
> the other ones to be part of that domain. All machines should connect with
> each other through IPv6.
> Thanks.

DNS in Windows Server 2008 (x86/x64) supports IPv6 addressing.

BR - Frank

"Jorge" wrote:

> Hi All,
> Is anyone familiar with Active Directory and IPv6? According to this note:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx it
> appears that AD is not supported with Windows 2003 Server IPv6. Does anyone
> know if Windows 2008 Server does support it?
> I am planning on setting up an IPv6 environment with active directory.
> Ideally I would want one of these machines to be the Domain Controller and
> the other ones to be part of that domain. All machines should connect with
> each other through IPv6.
> Thanks.

Thank you all for your replies.

Paul,

Public access is not a requirement, this is for a closed test environment. I
want to test my application using IPv6. I have two main goals 1) Is to
connect to active directory using a ldap browsing tool such as Softerra's or
JXplorer, and using an IPv6 address. And 2) I need to setup a domain so that
one same user can access the 3 machines in my setup to run some tests on
clustering.

Thanks.

"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" wrote:

> From your article (First I have seen this) it appears you will be forced
> into using both ipv4 and ipv6. Why is it so important to use IPv6 only?
> The internet has very few IPv6 sites so you will need to use ipv4 on your
> clients unless you aren't going to allow public access.
>
> What is your goal of ipv6 only?
>
> --
> Paul Bergson
> MVP - Directory Services
> MCTS, MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
> 2008, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4
> Microsoft's Thrive IT Pro of the Month - June 2009
>
> http://www.pbbergs.com
>
> Please no e-mails, any questions should be posted in the NewsGroup This
> posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Jorge" <> wrote in message
> news:88A5EF83-7854-4559-8D7E-...
> > Hi All,
> > Is anyone familiar with Active Directory and IPv6? According to this note:
> > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...8WS.10%29.aspx it
> > appears that AD is not supported with Windows 2003 Server IPv6. Does
> > anyone
> > know if Windows 2008 Server does support it?
> > I am planning on setting up an IPv6 environment with active directory.
> > Ideally I would want one of these machines to be the Domain Controller and
> > the other ones to be part of that domain. All machines should connect with
> > each other through IPv6.
> > Thanks.
>
>
> .
>