A quick way to tell where your FSMOs are

March 6, 2008

In my last post, I talked about what FSMO roles are how to retrieve them thru GUI. In this post I am showing you a quick way to tell what DCs are holding which FSMO roles in your forest/domain. It can be done by running NETDOM QUERY FSMO command at one of your DCs.

Notice, that my Schema Master and Domain Naming Master reside in the forest root domain (virtualdomain.com) since they are forest level FSMOs and the PDC Emulator, RID Master and Infrastructure Master are all on one DC (virtualdc3) which is on a separate domain tree (Shq.tech)

Typically NETDOM command-line tool enables administrators to manage Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 domains and trust relationships from the command line is available thru the Resource Kit. It has a range of syntax you can do various things with such as,

- Manage computer accounts for domain member workstations and member servers, Establish one-way or two-way trust relationships between domains.

Use NETDOM /? to see the available options or go here to get the list.

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