June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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FSMO roles
There are five flexible single master operations roles in the Active Directory infrastructure. Each of them will be performing specific Active Directory tasks that other domain controllers in the infrastructure are not permitted to perform. These five FSMO roles are divided into two categories based on their operation boundaries:
|
Forest Level |
Domain Level |
|
Schema operations master |
The primary domain controller (PDC) emulator operations master |
|
Domain naming operations master |
The relative identifier (RID) operations master |
| N/A |
The infrastructure operations master |
When we create the first Active Directory forest and the first Active Directory domain, all these FSMO roles will be installed in the domain's ...