Wednesday, 15 May 2019

HOW TO MOVE ALL FSMO ROLE USING GUI

Please see my previous post to find the FSMO roles.
https://theitways.blogspot.com/2019/05/how-to-find-fsmo-roles-on-your-sever.html

If you need to migrate the FSMO role using GUI you have come to the right place.

To move Domain wide roles
- Infrastructure Master
- Relative ID (RID) Master
- PDC Emulator

1. Login to the server with Network domain admin permission where you want the FSMO migrated
2. Open run and type in
DSA.MSC
3. This will open Active Directory Users and computers
4. Right click on your domain name and Click on OPERATIONS MASTERS..

5. On  operation master you can move the 3 domain wide roles


To move Forest wide roles
Forest Wide Roles
- Schema Master
- Domain naming Master

For Domain naming master
1. Login to the server with Network domain admin permission where you want the FSMO migrated
2. Open CMD by running as Administrator
3. On Cmd type in the
regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll

4. This will Register the schema managment dll.
5. Open run and type in
MMC
6. On MMC click on FILE and ADD/REMOVE SNAP-IN

7. Select ACTIVE DIRECTORY SCHEMA , Click on ADD and click on OK

8. Right Click on active directory schema, and click on OPERATION MASTER




9. Click on change to transfer the role

For Domain naming master
1. Login to the server with Network domain admin permission where you want the FSMO migrated
2. Open run and type in
DOMAIN.MSC
3. This will open Active directory domain and trust
4. Right click on Active directory domain and trust and click on OPERATION MASTER..


5. Click on CHANGE to transfer the role

Good Luck!!






HOW TO FIND FSMO ROLES ON YOUR SERVER

Hi ya,


If you are an administrator with multiple server, You definitely need to know where the FSMO (Flexible Single-Master Operation) roles are installed . There are 5 FSMO roles

Forest Wide Roles
- Schema Master 
- Domain naming Master 
Domain Wide Roles
- Infrastructure Master
- Relative ID (RID) Master 
- PDC Emulator

To simply find the 5 FSMO roles, login into to one of your server using network administrator account,

1. Open up your Command prompt
You can do this by open Run (Windows + R )
Then type in 
CMD

2. On command prompt type the following
netdom query fsmo





















Good luck !!