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Migrate FSMO Roles with PowerShell

Tutorial on how to migrate FSMO Roles with PowerShell

Check the existing FSMO Role Holders

Determined the existing FSMO Role Holders by querying UAT-AD01 which is a Windows 2016 AD Domain Controller in existing AD Domain

# Using PowerShell
Get-ADDomain -Server UAT-AD01 | Select-Object InfrastructureMaster, RIDMaster, PDCEmulator
Get-ADForest -Server UAT-AD01 | Select-Object DomainNamingMaster, SchemaMaster

# Netdom
netdom query fsmo

Migrate FSMO Roles with PowerShell

Move all FSMO Roles to the new AD Domain Controller called "UAT-AD01"

  • 0 = PDC Emulator
  • 1 = RID Master
  • 2 = Infrastructure Master
  • 3 = Schema Master
  • 4 = Domain Naming Master

Press Y for each or A for all.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole –Identity "UAT-AD01" –OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4

Verify all FSMO Roles had been transferred to UAT-AD01 successfully

netdom query fsmo

Schema master               UAT-AD01.glomac.com
Domain naming master        UAT-AD01.glomac.com
PDC                         UAT-AD01.glomac.com
RID pool manager            UAT-AD01.glomac.com
Infrastructure master       UAT-AD01.glomac.com
The command completed successfully.
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