There are some fundamental changes after installation of Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 3 (RU3) or later. Description of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2. Terms: RPC Client Access – The RPC Client Access service provides data access to any mailbox server through a single, common path of the Client Access server RPC endpoint – This relates to the Outlook profile RPC endpoint, the client access server in which Outlook connects to, see screenshot below. This hostname is internally resolvable only. History: In earlier versions of Exchange Server 2010, client connection requests were not redirected to…

Taken from here, this script is fantastic! You can run this from any domain member computer while logged in as a domain administrator. This script will clean up all metadata left over from a forced removal of a domain controller, e.g. DNS and Sites & Services information. I had a domain controller (DC) which needed to be rebuilt due to serious issues, as it was virtual, I disconnected the network, then simply formatted the OS drive and reinstalled Windows Server from scratch before connecting it back to the network. Meanwhile from another server, I ran the script below – worked…

Rather than using the GUI, you can move the Active Directory (AD) from the command prompt using PowerShell in just a few seconds, rather than minutes. Import the Active Directory PowerShell module: Import-Module activedirectory Transfer all the FSMO roles at once, or one by one: Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "<DC_Name>" -OperationMasterRole PDCEmulator, RIDMaster, InfrastructureMaster, SchemaMaster, DomainNamingMaster There are five FSMO roles to transfer: PDCEmulator RIDMaster InfrastructureMaster SchemaMaster DomainNamingMaster To check which FSMO roles are on what domain controller, from the command prompt run netdom query /d:<domain> fsmo