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posted on January 1st 1970, at 01:00
by lunarg
Powershell also allows you to easily transfer or seize FSMO roles in an Windows Active Directory. It is now the preferred method and is far more efficient than using the GUI or ntdsutil.

The cmdlet to use is Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole and can be used to instantly transfer one, several or all FSMO roles to the designated domain controller.

To transfer all FSMO roles to a DC called NewDC:

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity NewDC -OperationMasterRole PDCEmulator,RIDMaster, InfrastructureMaster,SchemaMaster,DomainNamingMaster

Note that you can also use numeric values for the FSMO roles to be transferred:

0PDCEmulator1RIDMaster2InfrastructureMaster3SchemaMaste  ...
 
 
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