Operations Masters Technical Reference
Operations Masters Technical Reference
- Operations masters prevent conflicting updates from being made to the Active Directory directory service database by performing specific tasks that no other domain controllers are permitted to perform. Most updates can be made to Active Directory on any domain controller and because they are replicated by using a multimaster replication model, all other domain controllers receive the updates.
- However, specific updates, such as password changes, the addition or deletion of a domain or application directory partition, or writing to the Active Directory schema, are performed on domain controllers that hold one of five operations master roles to prevent database inconsistencies.
- When you install Active Directory on the first domain controller in a forest, it automatically assigns five operations master roles to that domain controller. Each of the roles can be transferred to another domain controller at any time.
- This subject explains what operations masters are, and how each operations master role functions in Active Directory.
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