Your company’s network consists of a single Active Directory domain and contains a Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 environment. You migrate from Windows SBS 2003 to Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008. After the migration, you run a script to create several user accounts on the Management Server. You discover that the user accounts are not being created on the Management Server, and the script is generating errors. You suspect that the required Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) role was not transferred correctly to the Management Server.
You decide to transfer the required FSMO role to the Management Server manually.
Which role should you transfer?
A.
Domain Naming Master
B.
RID Master
C.
PDC Emulator
D.
Infrastructure Master
Explanation:
You should transfer the RID Master role to the Management Server. When you install Windows EBS 2008 during the migration from Windows SBS 2003 to Windows EBS 2008, the Windows EBS Installation Wizard transfers the Active Directory operations master roles from Windows SBS 2003 to Windows EBS 2008. In the event that these roles are not transferred correctly, the Windows EBS servers will not function properly. In this case, you can manually transfer the FSMO roles to Windows EBS servers. To do this, you can use the Ntdsutil.exe utility. In this scenario, you are facing problems with user account creation, which can be caused due to unavailability of the RID Master role. The RID Master is the single domain controller responsible for processing RID Pool requests from all domain controllers within a given domain. The RID Master is responsible for assigning Security Identifiers (SIDs) to objects, such as users and groups.You should not transfer the Domain Naming Master, PDC Emulator, or Infrastructure Master role to the Management Server because these roles are not required for creating accounts. The Domain Naming Master role adds or removes domains or application partitions to or from a forest. The PDC emulator FSMO role acts as the PDC for computers running Windows NT in the domain. A PDC emulator is the first domain controller where password changes are sent in the domain. The PDC emulator also replicates user and group information to down-level domain controllers in a domain and synchronizes the time with other domain controllers with in a domain. The Infrastructure Master updates SID attributes and distinguished name attributes for objects that are referenced across domains.