Hello,
I have 3 domain controllers currnetly in our domain, DC1 , DC2, DC3. DC1 was the first DC in our domain and has been active for the past 6 years but we are now wanting to power this down because we are moving out of the datacenter housing that DC but DC2 and DC3 will remain active.
I just went to check the operations masters and I see on the RID, PDC, and Infrastructure the operations master states "Error" and then below that it shows DC1 but it also states "The current operations master is offline. the role cannot be transferred." Also when I go to MMC and open Active Directory Schema I see that DC1 is the master there as well. But when I attempt to open Active Directory Domains and Trusts I get an error:
"You cannot modify domain or trust information because the Primary Domain Controller (PDC) emulator cannot be contacted. Please verify that the PDC emulator for the current domain and the network are both online and functioning properly."
The goal here is to change all of the Operations roles to DC2 but as of right now it looks like the operations role are in an error state and I would like get them out of an error state before moving forward.