Showing posts with label Flexible single master operation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flexible single master operation. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

transferring FSMO roles when decommissioning and SBS server

When decommissioning an SBS server, you need to trasnfer the 5 FSMO (Flexible single master operation) roles.  Here's the process:

Start -> Run
ntdsutil.exe

Type roles
Type connections
Type connect to server
where is the name of the server you are transferring the roles to (such as "connect to server contoso1")
Type q
Type transfer rid master
Type transfer infrastructure master
Type transfer pdc
Type transfer schema master
Type transfer naming master