You're an administrator in a large company—a very large company. You're responsible for a Windows 2000 Active Directory forest made up of several domains, with a total user count well in excess of 100 ...

Step-By-Step: Learn how to transfer and seize FSMO roles in Active Directory Your email has been sent Know the placement of server roles within the forest and domain and how to go about moving those ...

I have an Active Directory forest with 1 domain with 2 Win2K3 DCs. The Win2K3 DC ("DC1") with all 5 FSMOs was down for about a month. The computer was restored by replacing the failed primary disk ...

Run the Schema update from your Exchange server, not the domain controller. As long as the user account is a member of Schema Admins & Enterprise Admins you should be fine. I don't believe you need to ...

Last time, we discussed some key differences between Active Directory and the NT 4 domain model as it pertains to server roles. In addition to these differences, it's also important to understand the ...

If you're going to do some scheduled maintenance on a Domain Controller (DC), you may wish to transfer one of the Single Operations Masters from the box that's going to be down. You can do this via ...

Tony Northrup is a developer, security consultant and author with more than 10 years of professional experience developing applications for Microsoft Windows. Windows Server 2008 includes a handful of ...

Chris Wahl is an expert at enterprise infrastructure design, implementation and administration, with more than 30 active industry certifications. His Wahl Network blog was named one of BizTech’s ...

Since FSMO roles are typically spread out among various domain controllers, it's not always easy to figure out which domain controller holds a particular role. Luckily, we have PowerShell and the AD ...