SharePoint and Active Directory

What Active Directory (AD) can SharePoint support is a good question.  In general Sharepoint is compatible with the Active Directory going all the way back to 2003 but the real issue is with Exchange support or Windows Server support.

SharePoint 2016 – AD (2016 – 2003)*

SharePoint 2013 – AD (2016 – 2003)*

SharePoint 2010 – AD (2016 – 2003)*

Active Directory	2016	2013	2010
2000
2003	X	X	X
2003 R2	X	X	X
2008	X	X	X
2008 R2	X	X	X
2012	X	X	X
2012 R2	X	X	X
2016	X	X	X

* Denotes missing supported documentation

Exchange Server Supportability Matrix
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728623(v=exchg.150).aspx

Exchange Integration will require correct AD version
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/62119/can-we-install-sharepoint-2013-with-2012-server-but-the-domain-controller-and-ex

Reference https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5bff126a-2310-49eb-87e9-857876590d3f/does-sharepoint-2010-support-ad-2016?forum=sharepointadminprevious

Windows Server: Active Directory Schema Versions
https://marclsitinfrablog.wordpress.com/windows-sharepoint-articles-posts/windows-server-articles-posts/windows-server-active-directory-schema-versions/

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37395.active-directory-schema-versions.aspx

Windows Server Support Matrix (2013)

https://www.habaneroconsulting.com/stories/insights/2013/sharepoint-windows-support-matrix

Server	2016	2013	2010	2007	2003	2001
2016	X
2012 R2	X
2012		X
Win 8
2008 R2		X	X	S
Win 7			D
2008				S
Vista			D
2003 R2				X	X
2003				X	X
2000						X

X Supported
S Service Pack required
D Developer only

More from The Cloud Engineer

Create AD User in SharePoint
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2013/02/create-ad-user-in-sharepoint.html

Auditing in SharePoint
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2013/11/auditing-in-sharepoint.html

So It’s Time To Move Your SharePoint Farm

You have been testing and now ready to go live. Maybe you have a single or two tier solution and now you need to move to a traditional three tier solution. I know there are several options and many ways to migrate but simply stated you have two major options. New farm or use the existing farm. Here are some high level ideas to help you out. This will be a large project so testing will be key.

If you create a new farm you will then need to migrate your databases over. There are several third party tools or you can use powershell to assist. The advantage in building a new farm is that you start with a brand new farm and can recreate the farm in the knowledge from your testing environment. However testing is key to make sure the old farm and the new farm are the same.

If you are going to use your existing farm, the advantage is that this farm is exactly the same you are just adding / moving / removing servers as needed. This article is a good start and gives good overview from Microsoft on Multiple servers for a three-tier farm (SharePoint Server 2010)http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee805948.aspx

Here is another good article that give a step by step with screenshots http://sharepointsolutions.com/sharepoint-help/blog/2011/02/how-to-scale-out-a-sharepoint-2010-farm-from-two-tier-to-three-tier-by-adding-a-dedicated-application-server/

Your project gets more complex if you need to turn on the services on the new servers and move as needed then turn the services off the old servers. Here is a good start from Microsoft. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff851878.aspx

If you are adding a new SQl server and you are moving the databases you will need some more info here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx

From the rest of the web
Some free tools found while searching
http://featureadmin.codeplex.com reference http://sharepointnomad.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/262/

Move All Databases
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx
Move Content Databases
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262792.aspx
 How To- Move Content from old 2010 farm to new 2010 farm in-use without triggering Alerts (and without stopping SMTP)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/fbe979b3-a7d4-4963-9cac-ac74e246f6f4
Moving a site from one Farm to Another Farm sharepoint 2010
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010general/thread/5418151e-ad60-40de-93be-9fbb359e371e
How to move a SharePoint standalone 2010 farm from a server to another?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/37aae074-99cc-4253-a387-a1245ff68910

OLD - Issues faced when moving SharePoint to a new domain
Moving SharePoint to a new active directory domain
http://justgeeks.blogspot.com/2007/09/moving-sharepoint-to-new-active.html
move SharePoint to a new domain
http://sharepointapplied.com/2009/02/04/move-sharepoint-to-a-new-domain/
Reference
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/26769/move-sharepoint-to-new-domain

AD User Profile Replication

Configure SharePoint to sync work phone number from SharePoint Profile

Reference http://blogen.siderys.com/2010/04/synchronization-user-profile-in-active.html