You can use several methods to determine the operations master role
holders of the forest and domain. For example, you can query these roles using the Replication Monitor (Replmon.exe), Netdom, and Ntdsutil. You can also use the Windows Script Host (WSH) to query the Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) to find the operations masters, as documented in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 235617, "How to Find the FSMO Role Owners Using ADSI and WSH" (available from http://support.microsoft.com).
Practice: Viewing and Transferring Operations Master Role Assignments
In this practice, you manage operations master role assignments.
Note To complete this practice, you must have successfully completed the practice in Lesson 1.
Exercise 1: Viewing Operations Master Role Assignments
In this exercise, you view operations master role assignments.
To view operations master role assignments
1. Log on to Server 1 and Server2 as Administrator.
2. Use the procedure provided earlier in this lesson to view the RID master, the PDC
emulator, and the infrastructure master role assignments for the contoso.com
domain.
3. Use the procedure provided earlier in this lesson to view the domain naming mas¬
ter role assignment for the contoso.com domain.
4. Use the procedure provided earlier in this lesson to view the schema master role
assignment for the contoso.com domain.
Exercise 2: Transferring an Operations Master Role Assignment
In this exercise, you transfer the domain naming master role assignment from Serverl to Server2.
To transfer an operations master role assignment
1. Use the procedure provided earlier in this lesson to transfer the domain naming master role assignment from Serverl (contoso.com domain) to Server2 (chi.contoso.com domain).
2. When you have finished viewing the domain naming master role assignment on
Server2, transfer the domain naming master role assignment back to Server 1.
3. Demote Server2 so it becomes a member server for the contoso.com domain and
the cbi.contoso.com domain no longer exists.
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