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Analysis of Windows Server 2008 – AD Snapshot Viewer

This feature is currently known as the “Database Mounting Tool” (DMT), which is better than the previous name of “Data Mining Tool”. Who knows what we’ll end up calling this at RTM, but I like the previous name “Snapshot Viewer” the best so this is what I entitled the post.

DMT allows you to quickly take snapshots of your AD database at any point in time and view those snapshots using the LDP viewer of your choice. At first I was extremely excited about this feature, but after realizing the command-line action you have to go through in order to do this (see below), it killed my buzz a little bit. If you compare this to automating ldifde/csvde backups of your AD, I can see these advantages to snapshots: (more)

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