Moving FSMO Roles with Powershell

Another article about a command that I can never remember the syntax when I need it.

The information here is from: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6736.move-transfering-or-seizing-fsmo-roles-with-ad-powershell-command-to-another-domain-controller.aspx

To transfer all roles use:

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity “Target-DC” -OperationMasterRole SchemaMaster,RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster,DomainNamingMaster,PDCEmulator

To seize the roles append -Force.

You can also substitute the role names with numbers, making a more manageable:

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity “Target-DC” -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4 -Force

Much easier to remember than trying to remember which bit of the gui does which role.

Older servers use ntdsutil.exe:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/255504/using-ntdsutil.exe-to-transfer-or-seize-fsmo-roles-to-a-domain-controller