From the course: Windows Server 2019: Install and Configure Active Directory
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FSMO overview - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2019: Install and Configure Active Directory
FSMO overview
- [Instructor] In Active Directory Domain Services, all domain controllers are pretty much equal in the sense that we work in what's called a multi-master replication typology and any domain controller has the ability to perform pretty much the same actions that any other domain controller can perform. But you need to know that there are certain components of the database and certain actions in which we need to designate a single master. So this means that one domain controller will be the master of that specific operation. Now that one master can be moved from one domain controller to another and that's why we call it Flexible Single Master of Operations or FSMO. So let's take a look at the five FSMOs that we have in Windows Server 2019. To do this I'm going to connect to pretty much any domain controller, but I'm going to choose DC1. Here in the Server Manager, if I go up to the Tools menu, there's a couple of different…
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