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Scheduled Power Outage - AD Preperation

The power in our office will be cut for at least 24 hours this coming Friday evening. I'm looking at the steps needed for AD in regard to my forest root domain as I've never been in this situation before.

I have a forest root domain with 3 child domains beneath it, LUX, BRU & MIL. BRU is where the power outage will occur and where the forest root servers are located. All sites are connected via VPN.

I think I need to transfer the FSMO roles using the ntdsutil utility to a 'live' domain controller, but I would like to be 110% sure before going ahead and making mistakes.

If anyone could steer me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

inbarasan

If you are looking at help on Transferring FSMO Role You can check the below article

http://www.petri.co.il/transferring_fsmo_roles.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223346

Sunny-Brussels

ASKER

Thanks inbarasan.

The question is though, is this what I need to be looking at? I'm not 100% certain.

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Jay_Jay70

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Sunny-Brussels

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Hmm, think I am getting confused now :)

Jay, does the live controller have to be in the root domain? I was under the impression that I would need to transfer the schema master and infrastructure master to one of the domain controllers in the child domain. This does not seem to be the case.

Jay_Jay70

no, you have to keep those roles in the root domain, the schema and inf role contain all the information about your structure, you cannot transfer them to a sub domain

Sunny-Brussels

ASKER

I am confused no more.

Thanks for the clear explanation.

Jay_Jay70

No problem at all