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I have a running Win 2012R2 Active Directory server. Call it DC1
I just built a Win 2019 server that was added to the domain and promoted to AD server. This one is DC2
I ran "Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole" to the new server and running "netdom query fsmo", I get
Schema master...
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I have 2 DC, one onpremDC, one hostedDC. There was some previous work where an RDS server was made a DC and FSMO moved to it, then the hostedDC was made the DC & FSMO moved to it, then AD removed from the RDS server. However, the onpremDC still sees the RDSserver as holding all the FSMO (even...