FSMO Roles

Flexible Single-Master Operations (FSMO) Roles

Understanding FSMO Roles in Active Directory

Domain controllers that hold operations master roles are designated to perform specific tasks to ensure consistency and to eliminate the potential for conflicting entries in the Active Directory database. AD DS defines five operations master roles: the schema master, domain naming master, relative identifier (RID) master, primary domain controller (PDC) emulator, and infrastructure master.  

There are  five of these FSMO roles in every forest. 

OP master

They are:

Additionally, three of those FSMO roles are needed once in every domain in the forest:

Flexible Single-Master Operations We will explain Flexible Single-Master Operations (FSMO) Roles in next topic. So, that’s all in this blog. I will meet you soon with next stuff .Have a nice day !!!

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