I am trying to decommission a DC and have been following the steps required from Technet but have crossed a stumbling block. It will not allow me to transfer the Domain Naming Master or the Schema Master to the proposed new DC.
I have tried this two ways:
1. Via Operations Manager
2. Via dcpromo to decommission the current DC
By using the operations manager i get the following message:
“The transfer of the operations master role cannot be performed because:
The requested FSMO operation failed. The current FSMO holder could not be contacted” (Even though the current FSMO holder is the server I am running the Op Manager from)
By using the dcpromo i get the following message:
“The directory service was unable to transfer ownership of one or more floating single-master roles to the other servers”
All tests (netdiag /test:dns) pass successfully as does verifying communication with other DC and Verify the existance of operations masters.
I know there is a third way to do this by seizing them but I dont really wont to go this way yet as i believe this is a setup issue.
What am i missing?