Next, enter the LIST DOMAINS command. When you do, the NTDSUTIL command will inform you of how many domains it is aware of in the forest and will display each domain and a corresponding number.

I then ran NTDSUtil, which reduced ntds.dit from 221.1MB to 184.6MB. For the last phase of my unofficial test, I deleted the 50,000 objects I had added previously.

I know you can use NTDSUTIL to clean up AD, but I have a question about what exactly will happen when I do this.<BR><BR>Here is the current setup:<BR><BR>Domain1<BR>DC1 DC2<BR><BR>Child.Domain1<BR ...

Once mounted, NTDSUTIL can then start the snapshot's Active Directory in parallel with your existing AD using the DSAMAIN command. It does this by using a different set of ports. These ports are not ...