How assign FSMO

[Dmitri]

How manually assign FSMO roles to server? not use
ADcom&users and others!

 

[Tim Hines [MSFT]]

The following article will walk you through the process of transferring
roles with ntdsutil.

255504 Using Ntdsutil.exe to Seize or Transfer FSMO Roles to a Domain
Controller
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255504


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[Matjaz Ladava [MVP]]

You transfer FSMO roles using UI tools or command line utility like
ntdsutil.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=255690 for UI tools and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;255504 for ntdsutil.

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[Cary Shultz [MVP]]

-----Original Message-----
How manually assign FSMO roles to server? not use
ADcom&users and others!
.

Dmitri,

Take a look at installing the Support Tools on all of
your servers ( Domain Controllers, Member Servers,
everything! ). The Support Tools are located on both the
WIN2000 Server CD as well as the WIN2000 Service Pack
CD. The Support Tools from the Service Pack CD would be
the better option if available.

Once you have installed the Support Tools a bunch of
really nice tools are available. With some of these
tools you can determine what server holds which of the
FSMO Roles and if they are reachable....

No, to answer your question: take a look at the
following MS KB Article -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;255504&Product=win2000

This will show you how either to transfer ( probably what
you want ) or to seize ( in the case of a DC that went
down in a not so graceful manner ).

HTH,

Cary