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How to Migrate Windows Server 2008 R2 FSMO roles to Windows Server 2019

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Rick Claus
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May 07, 2019
With the "end of support" on the horizon for Windows Server 2008 R2 coming January 2020, folks are looking around for resources to help them check off some high ticket items from their "to do" list. ...
Updated May 13, 2019
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G33kChiq
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Mar 25, 2020

Thank you Rick Claus 

For the Set-ADDomainMode command and Set-ADForestMode, is it really raising the Domain functional level to Windows2016Domain domain and the forest to Windows2016Forest  despite we are using Windows 2019 OS? There's no Windows2019Forest or Windows2019Domain?

 

Also I have read somewhere to not put the Infrastructure master role on the same DC as the global catalog server. If the Infrastructure master runs on a global catalog server, it stops updating object information because it does not contain any references to objects that it does not hold. This is because a global catalog server holds a partial replica of every object in the forest.  But usually all DCs (best practice at least 2 of them) are also GC. Should or could the infrastructure master role be transferred to a server that is not a DC?