How many FSMO roles are there?
5
Not too many people know that Flexible Single Master Operations, also named single master operation or operations master, is a feature of Microsoft’s Active Directory. There are 5 FSMO roles: 1. Domain Naming Master —ForestWide Roles; 2. Schema Master —ForestWide Roles;3. RID Master (Relative ID Master) — Domain Wide Roles;4. PDC Emulator — Domain Wide Roles;5. Infrastructure Master — Domain Wide Roles. Not too many persons know that FSMO is a specialized domain controller (DC) set of tasks. They are used where standard data transfer and update methods prove to be inadequate.
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