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by stuart.truman

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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?

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by bfilmfan

Have you verified replication has completed with the REPADMIN /SHOWREPS command?

Also, is the domain controller a global catalog server that you are transferring the roles onto?

Most likely this is a stupid question, but the DC you are transferring the roles to is in the same domain of the forest correct? I've had a client that tried to transfer the forest FSMO roles to a child domain DC.

Run this command and see if you see any errors on the DC currently holding the roles:

dcdiag /v /e /f:dcdiagLOG.txt /ferr:dcdiagERROR.txt

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