The FSMO roles found here are: RID, PDC and Infrastructure masters. Three of the FSMO Operational Masters are found under the domain in Active Directory Users and Computers.
Your planning should also take into account the fact that each domain has its own RID, PDC and Infrastructure Master, while there is only one Schema and one Domain Naming Master for the entire Active Directory Forest.įinally a minor consideration, have you the correct rights, for example, do you have access to an account, which is and Enterprise Administrator and Schema Administrator. This is only a problem in a multi-domain forest. You can either just accept this peculiarity, or research why it thinks it knows best and does not need to replicate. If the Global Catalog server and Infrastructure Master are on the same server, the Global Catalog no longer updates information. The answer is probably not, for example, best practice suggests that the Infrastructure master should not be on a Global Catalog.
Another consideration is do you want all the roles on the same Domain Controller.