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Questions tagged [fsmo]

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How many FSMO roles are there?

I've always understood that there are five FSMO roles, but sometimes I see something that says there are seven. How many are there, really?
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Is it possible to have more than one AD server with FSMO roles installed on it?

It appears that it is relatively easy to have multiple (even all) AD servers equipped with a copy of the Global Catalog. However, is it possible to do the same for FSMO roles? If not, is it possible to create a failover protocol that will…
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Accessing an Active Directory DC using the domain name

I have a domain (myDomain.com) set up with Active Directory and 3 DCs (serverA, serverB, serverC). Each DC has a set of shares, which are accessed via UNC, such as \\server1\share1. Today I noticed that I can access one of the servers by referencing…
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FSMO-owner not replicating

I have an Active Directory with 6 DCs, where the newly added DC02 is not replicating. It's a mixed environment from Windows 2003 It is also the owner of PDC, RID and Infrastructure roles. Now I'm wondering what the best way to move forward is. The…
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Keep the same IP and host name for new domain controller as crashed one

Because of some disaster I have lost my primary domain controller and thanks god that I had secondary domain controller so I could provide the service to the computer and save my data. After that I have seized the all 5 FSMO roles to the secondary…
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Does a DCPROMO move FSMO roles automatically?

There's seems to be a fair bit of conflicting information out there - and although I have never tried this personally (have always manually moved the FSMO roles to a new DC prior to demotion) and intrigued to know if it is actually true. As part of…
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Reversing, Restoring, and taking over Active Directory Roles

I am out to upgrade our 2003 Windows Server to a 2012 Windows Server. From what I read I will be using dcpromo to promote a 2012 Server to take over a 2003 servers master roles. Questions: 1-- Given the AD forest is set as a 2003 forest, can I…
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What happens when a FSMO holder goes down?

Let's say I have 2 DCs and one of them which happens to hold all FSMO Roles goes down. Please correct me if I'm wrong but from what I understand: No Schema Master = no updating user details, no creating new users\computers\groups\group policies. No…
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Migrate FSMO roles during FRS to DFSR migration

Hello everyone and I hope everyone is well. I have a bit of a special case at one of my clients, we are in the middle of a migration from FRS to DFSR, (step 2) and have to go to step 3, eliminated. The customer would like to wait a little before…
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How do I force a domain controller to sync with the PDC?

DC2 (a VM) is not syncing to DC1 (a physical server). On DC2 I get: PS C:\> w32tm /query /source Local CMOS Clock What must I do so that DC2 syncs to DC1 as its time source? Background: I had to replace DC1 and it was my operations master. There…
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FSMO errors on new Domain controllers

I have a current DC that is on server 2012. I recently added 2 more dcs that are running server 2016. We are having issues with the netlogon share replicating across to the new dcs. When I look at the roles im getting some different results. netdom…
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How to recover FSMO Schema master

I am trying to raise a secondary "AD DC" server on a WIN 2012. My primary server is a Win 2008. While going through the Add feature process, I got the error message: error determining whether the target environment requires adprep unable to…
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Both Domain Controllers believe that they are the PDC and FSMO owners

We have 2 DC's in the environment, 1 VM in Hyper-V and 1 Physical Server for redundancy and backup fail over. Last week the (C:) OS HDD in the Physical Server just died and the Server crashed. The Disk is dead, it just clicks, and the no longer…
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Single Domain Controller FSMO holder DR

We are looking at the topic of DR at the moment and I would like your expert help in the creation of a DR plan in the event that our PDC somehow goes kaput! Info: Our PDC holds all FSMO roles We have 3 secondary DC's around our environment Is there…
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Transferring PDCEmulator FSMO role from Windows Server 2012R2 to 2022

I'm upgrading my AD by adding new Windows Server 2022 Domain Controllers and will be demoting the existing Server 2012R2 DCs once the new servers are up and I see that things seem to be working smoothly. I've already transferred the RIDMaster role…
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