asked on PDC role transferred on it's own
We recently migrated our DC from SBS 2008 to Sever 2012 R2 Standard. We transferred the FSMO roles successfully and decided to keep the other server around as a secondary onsite DC. Today I logged on to run some verifications. When I ran NetDOM /query FSMO, it came back with the PDC and Domain Naming Master roles back on the old DC. No one here migrated those roles back to the old DC. I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced this and if so, do you know how and why this occurred. Searching through Google brought back little to nothing.
Active DirectoryWindows Server 2008SBS
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Mukoo
keep in mind also there is a 30 day grace period so once the FSMO roles are off the SBS server, after the grace period is over, the server will start rebooting periodically. better off building another 2012 server if you want another domain controller; either that or keep the FSMO roles on SBS. as will stated, it is a license requirement as long as the server is in production
With SBS 2003 to any regualr edition, you could extend the grace period from 7 - 21 days after the FSMO rolls are migrated...
http://blogs.technet.com/b/infratalks/archive/2012/09/07/transition-from-small-business-server-to-standard-windows-server.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/infratalks/archive/2012/09/07/transition-from-small-business-server-to-standard-windows-server.aspx
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Couldn't find what I was looking for.
If you have AD Auditing enabled you will be able to see who changed this role back to the SBS server.
Will.