RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer

[David Adner]

I would only agree if you told me your DC's regularly fail to come back after a reboot.  And if you did tell me that I'd have to say you're doing something wrong.   I suppose I don't consider rebooting a DC to be quite the dangerous act as others do.  To what degree is this taken?  If it holds a standard Primary zone do you transfer that role, too?  If it's the PDCE of the forest root domain and you transfer the role, do you also reconfigure the new PDCE to manually synchronize time from an authoritative source?  I mean, if we're going to work under the assumption that a reboot is a regularly catastrophic causing event then it's probably time to switch OS's.   Is it possible something unexpectedly horrible can happen as part of a reboot?  Sure.  But it better be the exception.  And with regards to FSMO roles, which, barring some specific technical requirement they be readily available, the temporary outage of them is typically a transparent event and shouldn't require added administrative overhead in transferring them back and forth.  Accepting that a catastrophic event is an exception, then you follow your documented and tested activities to recover from that exception; ie: you seize the roles, restore from backup, etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rich Milburn Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer Yeah but having “seize the FSMOs instead of moving them” as your fallback plan is like making sure you have a current backup in case “yanking the power cord instead of Start > Shutdown > Restart” causes file system corruption J   ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rich Milburn MCSE, Microsoft MVP - Directory Services Sr Network Analyst, Field Platform Development Applebee's International, Inc. 4551 W. 107th St Overland Park, KS 66207 913-967-2819 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ”I love the smell of red herrings in the morning” - anonymous From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:56 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] FSMO role transfer   If something went wrong you could still seize the FSMO roles as an option rather than doing a transfer.  Of course the procedures for all of these for the 5 FSMOs should be documented just in case needed..    Chuck   -------APPLEBEE'S INTERNATIONAL, INC. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE------- PRIVILEGED / CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION may be contained in this message or any attachments. This information is strictly confidential and may be subject to attorney-client privilege. This message is intended only for the use of the named addressee. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, unauthorized forwarding, printing, copying, distribution, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this in error, you should kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail and immediately destroy this message. Unauthorized interception of this e-mail is a violation of federal criminal law. Applebee's International, Inc. reserves the right to monitor and review the content of all messages sent to and from this e-mail address. Messages sent to or from this e-mail address may be stored on the Applebee's International, Inc. e-mail system.