{"id":181,"date":"2005-10-17T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/active-directory-operations-master.htm"},"modified":"2007-06-11T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T19:14:42","slug":"active-directory-operations-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/10\/active-directory-operations-master.htm","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory operations master management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--112958164123981064-->Moving Active Directory operations masters is not something that you need to do every day, and I can never remember how to do it when I need to (well the RID, PDC, infrastructure and domain naming masters are easy enough, but I always forget how to move the schema master because it requires registration of the Active Directory Schema console).<\/p>\n<p>As part of the final preparations for shutting down a virtual machine which I had running as a temporary domain controller, I needed to transfer all of the operations masters roles to the remaining permanent (physical) machine.  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