Ownership of the following FSMO role is set to a server which is deleted or does not exist. Operations which require contacting ...

Ownership of the following FSMO role is set to a server which is deleted or does not exist.



Operations which require contacting a FSMO operation master will fail until this condition is
corrected.



FSMO Role: %1

FSMO Server DN: %2



User Action:



1. Determine which server should hold the role in question.

2. Configuration view may be out of date. If the server in question has been promoted recently,
verify that the Configuration partition has
replicated from the new server recently.  If the server in question has been demoted recently and the
role transferred, verify that this server has replicated the partition (containing the latest role
ownership) lately.

3. Determine whether the role is set properly on the FSMO role holder server. If the role is not set, utilize NTDSUTIL.EXE to transfer or seize the role. This may be done using the steps provided in KB articles 255504 and 324801 on http://support.microsoft.com.

4. Verify that replication of the FSMO partition between the
FSMO role holder server and this server is occurring successfully.



The following operations may be impacted:

Schema: You will no longer be able to modify the schema for this forest.

Domain Naming: You will no longer be able to add or remove domains from this forest.

PDC: You will no longer be able to perform primary domain controller operations, such as Group Policy updates and password resets for non-Active Directory Domain Services accounts.

RID: You will not be able to allocation new security identifiers for new user accounts, computer accounts or security groups.

Infrastructure: Cross-domain name references, such as universal group memberships, will not be updated properly if their target object is moved or renamed.