When moving FSMO roles the old fashioned way, you use MMC and move the roles each individually, it takes a little time, but it’s somewhat troublesome.

BUT, this can be achieved much quicker with Powershell 🙂

Here is how to transfer all 5 FSMO roles:

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity DC01 –OperationMasterRole PDCEmulator,RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster,SchemaMaster,DomainNamingMaster

Where “DC01” above is the TARGET DC.

Check with netdom command afterwards:

Done!