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AD functional level upgrade planning

Timelines and exceptions · All guidance changes

Active Directory · Official Microsoft guidance

No content change seen yet. Watched since 5 Oct 17:50 UTC, last read today 20:15 UTC, next check 21 Oct 02:15 UTC. Microsoft's own edits are listed below.

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Timeline

From the capture of 5 Oct 17:50 UTC · an earlier observation

Legacy capture: table structure or oversized sections are unavailable for extraction

Microsoft's revision log on this page · 13 entries

Dates from the page's own change log or history section. They describe earlier edits, not upcoming policy.

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

52 earlier changes
Observed history and review priority

Captured 5 Oct 17:50 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c/legacy.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 18

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:40 UTC.

  1. Apply suggestions from code review Served on LearnView diff
  2. New Upgrade in-place article View diff
  3. Fix validation warning View diff
  4. Fix validation warning View diff
  5. Removing special character View diff
  6. Fixing merge conflict View diff
  7. Bulk update to remove preview suffix View diff
  8. Removing local applies to for AD DS View diff
  9. Updating to align with Active Directory Functional Levels View diff
  10. Updates View diff
  11. removed 2008, 2008 R2, 2003, 2000 content and mentions and added tip View diff
  12. Robin minor edits 1 View diff
  13. additional edits 2 View diff
  14. additional edits View diff
  15. 2025 2016 and edits View diff
5 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Update WindowsServerDocs/identity/ad-ds/plan/Identifying-Your-Functional-Level-Upgrade.md Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Apply suggestions from code review Metadata onlyView diff
  3. Bulk update ms.topic, author: robinharwood Metadata onlyView diff
  4. Replace the non-skilling ms.authors Metadata onlyView diff
  5. minor edits final Metadata onlyView diff

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 12 Oct 19:50 UTC

    9 removed passages (about 70 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.

  • 6 Oct 17:57 UTC

    Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.

  • 5 Oct 17:50 UTC · shown above

What changed

First observed 18 Oct 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.

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