AD – Size or tranfer FSMO roles

Problem
You need to transfer the FSMO roles quickly

Solution

Sieze roles:

Open Ntdsutil as an administrator: Click Start, and then, in Start Search, type ntdsutil. At the top of the Start menu, right-click ntdsutil, and then click Run as administrator. In the User Account Control dialog box, provide Domain Admins credentials, and then click OK.
At the ntdsutil: prompt, type roles, and then press ENTER.
At the fsmo maintenance: prompt, type connections, and then press ENTER.
At the server connections: prompt, type connect to server <servername>, where servername is the name of the domain controller that belongs to the domain that contains the operations masters.
After you receive confirmation of the connection, type quit, and then press ENTER to exit this menu.

At the fsmo maintenance: prompt, type seize <role>,where role is the role that you want to seize (see above image, and then press ENTER.
Type quit, and then press ENTER to exit each prompt in Ntdsutil.exe.
At the ntdsutil: prompt, type quit, and then press ENTER to close the window.

Transfer roles

Open Ntdsutil as an administrator: Click Start, and then, in Start Search, type ntdsutil. At the top of the Start menu, right-click ntdsutil, and then click Run as administrator. In the User Account Control dialog box, provide Domain Admins credentials, and then click OK.
At the ntdsutil: prompt, type roles, and then press ENTER.
At the fsmo maintenance: prompt, type connections, and then press ENTER.
At the server connections: prompt, type connect to server <servername>, where servername is the name of the domain controller that belongs to the domain that contains the operations masters.
After you receive confirmation of the connection, type quit, and then press ENTER to exit this menu.
At the fsmo maintenance: prompt, type transfer <role>,where role is the role that you want to seize (see above image), and then press ENTER.
Type quit, and then press ENTER to exit each prompt in Ntdsutil.exe.
At the ntdsutil: prompt, type quit, and then press ENTER to close the window.

Review
In a command window type: netdom /query fsmo

Tested Platform
Windows 2008R2

Reference
https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/255504