FSMO Roles KB ID 0001257 

Problem

I’ve written about transferring and sizing FSMO roles, (Flexible Single Master Operations) before, see the following article;

Transferring Your FSMO Roles

Now you have a PowerShell Commandlet to help ‘Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole‘.

FSMO Roles : Solution

As before you can view your FSMO role holders, by using the following command.

[box]netdom query fsmo[/box]

To transfer them to another server, (in the case a host called LAN-2016.

[box]Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity LAN-2016 -OperationMasterRole SchemaMaster,  DomainNamingMaster, PDCEmulator, RIDMaster, InfrastructureMaster
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If you can’t be bothered to type the names, you can also use numbers, i.e.

• PDCEmulator 0
• RIDMaster 1
• InfrastructureMaster 2
• SchemaMaster 3
• DomainNamingMaster 4

Obviously this will move them all, omit any you don’t want to move!

How to Seize FSMO Roles In Server 2016

Easy! Same command as above, but you put the ‘-Force’ switch on the end of the command, i.e.

[box]Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity LAN-2016 -OperationMasterRole SchemaMaster,  DomainNamingMaster, PDCEmulator, RIDMaster, InfrastructureMaster -Force
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Note: If you prefer to do this graphically, then see the following article.

Transferring Your FSMO Roles

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