I have a single Domain/single Forest Active Directory Domain with 4 DC's all of which are Windows Server 2008R2 SP1. Just recently I raised the Domain and Forest Functional Levels to 2008R2. I would like to go ahead and enable they Active Directory Recycle Bin to take advantage of this technology. After Reading through this article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379484(v=ws.10).aspx I recalled that we have a VMware View implementation and VMware View utilizes AD LDS. At this time we really aren't using View in any capacitity but it does have an instance of AD LDS setup. Not being very familiar with AD LDS and if it leverages my 2008R2 Domain Services, I'm contemplating if I should stop and address the functional level of this instance of AD LDS in my VMware View envrionment prior to enabling the AD Recycle Bin in my AD Domain. Or does it not matter? Following the steps in the above article under "Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services envrionment" I checked the value of themsDS-Behavior-Version and found it to be "2=(Win 2003)" The instance of AD LDS is running on a Windows Server 2008R2.
Is it necessary that I raise the functional level of this AD LDS instance if I don't plan to use the AD Recycle Bin in it? Not being familiar with AD LDS I want to make sure if I just ignore this AD LDS instance that it won't cause any issue with my AD Domain Services when enabling the AD Recycle Bin.