[Active Directory]How to determine which DC was supposed to being 5 FSMO

2013-12-26

I was excited the company that gonna upgrade server to Windows Server 2012
According the last article : “[Active Directory]How to migrate FSMO to other Domain Controllers (DC) “ (Link is here)
We will have a question following that “How to determine which DC was supposed to installing each of 5 FSMO”?


Solution:
The table is just a handy recommend summary. If you want to do this, please play with on your test environment before you do.


Operation Masters Requisite  Requisite
Forest Wide

Domain Naming Master Recommend being a GC Installed in DC with Schema Master



Schema Master Not required being a GC Installed in DC with Domain Naming Master, but nor required
Domain Wide

PDC Emulator Not required being a GC Installed in DC with RID Master, but not required

Recommend installed in the most Domain Users it required heavily password authorization
RID Master Recommend being a GC, but not required Installed in DC with PDC Emulator, but not required

Don't need a fast network link or a good server
Infrastructure Master Recommend being a GC, but not required if multi domains, don't install IM in DC, if so, put all DCs as GC roles

the role is not important if only one domain and one forest
GC

Global Catalog recommend installed Exchange in the GC role of DC if one domain has over 100 users
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