Windows AD FSMO Roles Importance
Windows Active Directory FSMO Roles importance: Which FSMO role is the most important? And why? Interesting question which role is most important out of 5 FSMO roles or if one role fails that will impact the end-user immediately Most armature administrators pick the Schema master role, not sure why maybe they though Schema is very critical to run the Active Directory Correct answer is PDC, now the next question why? Will explain role by role what happens when a FSMO role holder fails to find the answer Schema Master – Schema Master needed to update the Schema, we don’t update the schema daily right, when will update the Schema? While the time of operating system migration, installing new Exchange version and any other application which requires extending the schema So if are Schema Master Server is not available, we can’t able to update the schema and no way this will going to affect the Active Directory operation and the end-user Schema Master needs to be