Powershell: Move (Transfering or Seizing) FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller

Advantages

Moving the FSMO roles with the AD PowerShell has the following advantages:

1. It must not first connect to the future Domain Controller role holders.
2. Only Seizing (role holder is offline) the FSMO roles will require an additional parameter, you must use -Force parameter.
3. Transfering or Seizing the FSMO roles must not necessarily be done from the role holder or the future role holder. You can run the AD-Powershell command from a Windows 7 Client or Windows Server 2008 R2 member server (after RSAT is installed).

Transfering all roles

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "Target-DC" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4

Seizing all roles

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "Target-DC" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4 -Force

Role Name
Number
PDCEmulator
0
RIDMaster
1
InfrastructureMaster
2
SchemaMaster
3
DomainNamingMaster
4

Transfering all roles
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "Target-DC" -OperationMasterRole SchemaMaster,RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster,DomainNamingMaster,PDCEmulator

Seizing all roles
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "Target-DC" -OperationMasterRole SchemaMaster,RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster,DomainNamingMaster,PDCEmulator