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ADFS 2016 Requierements Schema
There is known issue with that.
The 2016 farm behavior level requires the ADDS 2016 schema (DC can be at a lower level, but the schema needs to be 2016). BUT, when you install a brand new farm from scratch using Windows Server 2016 it will show as the FBL is already 2016 regardless of the ADDS schema version. This, hopefully, should be corrected.
If you want to use the FBL 2016 you need ADDS 2016 Schema. So we cannot guarantee that the new features will be working as expected.
If you were doing an upgrade from an existing ADFS 2012 R2 farm, you would have not been able to upgrade the FBL until the ADDS schema is 2016.
Jamil Hassan Pié and all, I am curious of the same thing. Also, regardless of schema version (older than 2012 etc) would it be okay to not upgrade schema? Would we simply just miss out out on new features? Could the schema be upgraded later to gain those new features?
In our case AD FS 2.0 is in place and there will be a new AD FS 2016 to replace it. A good forest recovery plan is not in place however AD FS 2016 must be installed because of previously agreed upon timeline.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
VasilMichev or NunoAriasSilva have you guys had luck upgrading straight to AD FS 2016 from AD FS 2.0 without upgrading the schema or know if the schema upgrade can simply be done at a later time (to get full functionality)?
JavierRivas what did you end up doing?
Thank you
Kevin
So I completed a project building ADFS 2016 along side ADFS 2012 on the same AD, but different farm names. We had to raise the Schema Level to the 2016 requirement. Microsoft told us ADFS 2016 would not be supported on the 2012 schema level (If built as a separate new farm). So we had a project to raise the Schema level, then installed ADFS 2016.
JavierRivas thank you for your reply.
When you said colleague Ms, do you mean someone that works at Microsoft?Hello this info I was talking to a colleague Ms
Installing ADFS on server 2016 and create a new farm requires Schema of AD 2016
Installing ADFS on server 2016 and join a 2012 R2 farm does not require Schema of AD 2016
• Raising the farm level to 2016 does require Schema of AD 2016
It’s really simple. AD FS 2016 requires the AD schema to be on the 2016 level. Everything else is not supported
