Windows Server – Locating, Transferring, and Seizing FSMO Roles
Nov10

Windows Server – Locating, Transferring, and Seizing FSMO Roles

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. netdom query fsmo To transfer them to...

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Windows – ‘The directory service has exhausted the pool of relative identifiers’
Nov17

Windows – ‘The directory service has exhausted the pool of relative identifiers’

KB ID 0000797  Problem I got this error when attempting to bulk create users with CSVDE (see below). But you may simply see it when trying to create a user, or other AD object. Unwilling To Perform The server side error is “The directory service has exhausted the pool of relative identifiers.” Solution Well that is a scary looking error! Firstly make sure you can see all your FSMO role servers. Locate your FSMO Role...

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