Move FSMO Roles Using PowerShell | Active Directory Domain Controller AD DC

scottalanmiller

Well known commands but very handy to have them all in one place.

First check where things are currently held..

get-addomain | select InfrastructureMaster, PDCEmulator, RIDMaster
Get-ADForest | select DomainNamingMaster, SchemaMaster

And then these commands to move the roles. my_dc is the name of the DC to which to want to move the roles.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" PDCEmulator
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" RIDMaster
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" Infrastructuremaster
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" DomainNamingmaster
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" SchemaMaster

dbeato

@scottalanmiller Maybe place it on a Git Repo as well so you have scripts and information ready to us.

syko24

I'm a fan of the one liner assuming you are transferring all roles to the same DC.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "DC-Server" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4


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

CCWTech

@syko24 said in Move FSMO Roles Using PowerShell | Active Directory Domain Controller AD DC:

I'm a fan of the one liner assuming you are transferring all roles to the same DC.
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "DC-Server" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4


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

Me too. This is what I normally use. SOOOO helpful.

Not sure why powershell made it so complicated to find who has the roles.
netdom query fsmo was so easy.