How to transfer FSMO Roles When Main Domain Controller is Down or Offline

[@NoReply-m2u]

I came here and made an account to say you are a lifesaver. This video is really saved my life and our 9k employees.

[@CalebeOwsiany]

You're a life saver, my dude!! Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@MarkSmith-ln5ki]

This video was a lifesaver thank you very much.

[@LabsHandsOn]

You're welcome!

[@lucianM-o9k]

Thank you! Very good tutorial! Worked perfectly

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks, Glad to know you like it.

[@keratiwichitchote8015]

This video can help my life . Thank you very much.

[@a-teamIL]

Great videos! I think for the client to recognize the new FSMO server, you could have just did an 'ipconfig/flushdns' versus removing the DNS entry for each client (and restarting).

[@subhendumordunya8217]

Sir Thanks such a great explanation.

[@LabsHandsOn]

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[@alfianpanudi853]

great video, thank you Vikas Singh

[@LabsHandsOn]

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[@lordhackerrr]

My customer WinSRV2003 Faile master DC Down you video apply method. Problem resolved .. Thanks Vikas ...

[@LabsHandsOn]

Glad to know keep rocking

[@vikino83]

Thank you for that :-) One more thing... After all, copy from failed DC (if HDD is working) policies to C:\Windows\SYSVOL\"domain"\policies

[@owobogbenga8185]

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[@vaibhavattarde]

Thanks a lot. It really helped me to recovery.

[@LabsHandsOn]

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[@marvinpuri6583]

Thanks very much. such a helpful video

[@LabsHandsOn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@reuelsoriano2554]

This just made my day. Thanks for such good explanation

[@LabsHandsOn]

Your most welcome dear

[@mario7mag]

Thanks for the information, helped me a lot!!

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thank you very much for your feedback, Glad to know you like it..

[@athatoghumakkar1756]

Thanks sir I was so confused but aftr watching this videos, it's clear. Pls share ur machine hardware configuration to practice with vmway. Because my system is getting hanged too much.

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks glad to know you like it.... May machine having i7 with 128GB Memory

[@RifaiRahmanM]

Nice Video, Was really helpful, Also it would be great if you make another video to bring back the FSMO roles the back to the new/replaced DC server

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks for the idea!

[@sammar1962]

thanks a lot for clear illustration

[@snehdeepbains6316]

If we have to change primary DC from DC1 to DC2, do we first change domain controller and then transfer FSMO roles or do we first transfer FSMO roles and then change DC?

[@LabsHandsOn]

What you mean by Change DC?? After promoting new DC in your forest/domain you can move FSMO Roles to new server.

[@snehdeepbains6316]

Vikas Singh so basically our Primary DC is Windows 2008 and DC2 is Windows 2012, we want to 1) make DC2 as primary DC so that we can upgrade DC1 from 2k8 to 2012, for this do we first change DC from DC1 to DC2 and then transfer FSMO roles or directly transfer FSMO roles? 2) while upgrading 2008 to 2012 will the entire data in 2008 get erased or is there a way we can upgrade while keeping data in place? DC1 is a physical server, DC2 is virtual machine hosted on esx 5.5 3) after upgrading DC1 to 2012, we want to move roles back from DC2 to DC1 and raise functional domain level of the forest to 2012

[@NeoZod19]

very good and so helpfull!,

[@LabsHandsOn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pranjaldeka517]

very good explanation... thanks

[@osobm37]

Hello, i have a similar issue, I have 2 physical servers, we clone the AD server which is a Windows Server 2012 virtual machine to a new physical server, this clone never worked, the error message is "Windows cannot create the object because the directory service was unable to allocate a relative" when we tried to create new users, so we continue with the original VM . We accidentally deleted the original VM and only have the cloned VM left. Will this procedure work for us?

[@Doowhip]

great video, thank you very much

[@LabsHandsOn]

Glad it helped

[@kuweekee]

Thank you very much for your video

[@LabsHandsOn]

Glad it was helpful!

[@naminda.perera]

Nice one mate

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks

[@roeljamessacdalan]

Hi i have the situation that whem Im put a "connect to server" then Binding a server then after that there's a message that my RPC is unavailable. How can I manage that? Btw my Primary server is offline and I do this on my 2nd server..

[@duramax0103]

How do I transfer the RID & PDC back to the primary DC? Currently the secondary DC has both roles assigned to itself. Well this cause any errors?

[@LabsHandsOn]

i don't think no

[@matfraeke8482]

Thank you for the help!

[@lanepulcini]

Thank you very much.

[@LabsHandsOn]

You are welcome!

[@davemagno3361]

Hi Sir question, If we seize the FSMO rule from dead dc to 2nd DC, what is be the effect on the workstation? We're using live production right now!

[@LabsHandsOn]

If you are able to seize and transfer all roles to 2nd DC, then their will be no issue in production infra.

Very good friend! Thanks for sharing.

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks

[@mykelrose]

After seizing role got this error at the end: can you tell me what wrong ? i have 2 domain server 2012r2 , one primary and one secondary and i need to remove the primary as being too old. i have try the seizing procedure and got the error at the end when i want to check if the server is ok PS C:\Windows\system32> get-addomain | select-object infrastructuremaster, ridmaster, pdcemulator get-addomain : Unable to find a default server with Active Directory Web Services running. At line:1 char:1 + get-addomain | select-object infrastructuremaster, ridmaster, pdcemulator + ~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (TCO:ADDomain) [Get-ADDomain], ADServerDownException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryServer:1355,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADDomain

[@davemagno3361]

siezing is force transfer FSMO rule from dead DC1 to DC2, if the dc1 is still active just use transfer role.

[@fliprodbr]

great job !

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks Glad to know you like it

[@blogas2]

Thank you. Very helpful.

[@LabsHandsOn]

You are most welcome

[@esmaildibazar8163]

tanks very good

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks, Glad to know you like it.

[@jonaldrose8116]

Thank you...

[@LabsHandsOn]

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[@madhavireddy6593]

When you give the netdom query fsmo in dc2 it should show the roles of dc2 as it is also a domai controller. Why it is showing roles of dc1

[@tarreislam]

ty bredda

[@akosipye]

hi.. i have the situation that my DC is damage and im trying to follow your instruction and i got this error message while in command: connect to server

[@marlonocillos]

use connect to server

[@Tony_Heisenberg]

connect your server. I assume that it's gonna be your secondary DC in your situation

[@YairZafrani]

thank you so much for this tutorial. you absolutely rescued my ass :))

[@LabsHandsOn]

Keep rocking

[@maheshmuthupandiyan7594]

Hi bro, Thanks for your video, I have two questions 1. Suppose the Primary server will be back to normal operation. The client machine will automatically connect to the Primary server? 2.When we can change the FSMO role from Primary to the secondary domain server. A client machine cannot connect automatically? we need to do restart the client machine?

[@imalihaider]

thanks

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks for your feedback... Glad to know you like it.

[@geforceadmin]

Thanks for this video. In your this demo you just turned off your Primary Domain Controller (PDC 192.168.1.254). What if after seizing all the roles to 192.168.1.253, anyone just turn on Old PDC (192.168.1.254)?

[@LabsHandsOn]

Once you moved all FSMO roles to other server, and done with Meta Data cleanup nothing going to happen when old DC is going to come online.

[@shivin90s]

U NEED TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT YOU SAY ..

[@LabsHandsOn]

Thanks for feedback

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