Attempting safe transfer of PDC FSMO before. Answer 'Yes' for the confirmation of role seizure and this is displayed in the console : Plain Text.
The one EXCEPTION is for the PDC emulator role, whose syntax is seize pdc, not seize pdc emulator. Force the transfer of the 'PDC emulator' FSMO role from the command line (ntdsutil) To get the 'PDC emulator' role when the source domain controller is down, use the command : Batch. Type seize role, where role is the role that you want to seize.įor a list of roles that you can seize, type ? at the fsmo maintenance: and then press ENTERįor example, to seize the RID master role, type fsmo maintenance: seize rid master Where servername is the name of the domain controller that you want to assign the FSMO role to.Īt the server connections: Type q, and then press ENTER
#TRANSFERRING NETWORK SHARES FROM PDC TO NEW PDC HOW TO#
So my question is how to tranfer all the PDC(a) roles to one of the other BDCs and completely remove the old PDC(a). Will show server connections: Type connect to server ( servername) and then press ENTER. Our PDC(a) was built on a loaned server and now its time for us to return it. Will show fsmo maintenance: Type connections, and then press ENTER Will show ntdsutil: Type roles, and then press ENTER With seize command, we can assured that FSMO roles will change to another domain. But sometimes, you need to transfer it when something goes wrong with one of your Domain Controller. In last post, I show you how to transfer FSMO Roles using GUI, in normal condition.