FSMO roles also known as Operations Master are roles performed by the domain controller to facilitate replication.
In a forest, there are five FSMO roles that are assigned to one or more domain controllers. By default the first domain controller in the domain holds all the roles. The five FSMO roles are as follows:
RID Master
PDC Emulator Master
Infrastructure Master
Schema Master
Domain Master
The RID master is responsible for processing RID pool requests from all domain controllers in a particular domain
We support this role completely and there are no known limitations.
The PDC emulator is a domain controller that advertises itself as the first domain controller to workstations, member servers, and domain controllers
In DSfW the PDC Emulator supports only the following functionality:
By default the editing or creation of Group Policy Objects (GPO) is always done from the GPO copy located in the PDC Emulator's SYSVOL share.
All the other features of PDC Emulator are not supported.
The infrastructure is responsible for updating references from objects in its domain to objects in other domains.
This role is not defined in DSfW but all the functionalities provided by this role are supported.
The schema master domain controller controls all updates and modifications to the schema.
This role is not defined in DSfW but all the functions provided by this role are supported.
The domain naming master domain controller controls the addition or removal of domains in the forest. There can be only one domain naming master in the whole forest.
This role is not defined in DSfW but all the functions provided by this role are supported.