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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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.
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1-- Given ...
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FSMO roles in LDS
Does MS LDS (LDAP) have the same 5 FSMO roles that AD does? When I check in dsmgmt I'm only seeing that 2 roles are known by my LDS servers (Schema and Naming Master). Just curious if I should be ...
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Unable to Transfer FSMO Role to Specific Domain Controller
I currently have two Windows 2012 R2 domain controllers - serverA and serverB. I have two Windows 2019 instances that were promoted to domain controllers with DNS roles - serverC and serverD. I was ...
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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 ...
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One DC is pulling FSMO from an AD server that doesn't exist, other DC sees FSMO AOK
I have 2 DC, one onpremDC, one hostedDC. There was some previous work where an RDS server was made a DC and FSMO moved to it, then the hostedDC was made the DC & FSMO moved to it, then AD removed ...
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Local Domain LDAP certificate
I'm really new to certificates, I had a windows server 2012 R2 we did an in-place upgrade from 2008 R2, lets call that ADServer. It was the AD DC and everything was fine. I bought new servers and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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