So what do you do if DCPROMO fails? Take a deep breath and read this Daily Drill Down by Brien Posey, who shows you how NTDSUTIL can help you deal with the failure. If you suspect that an Active ...

Once booted into Directory Services Restore Mode, you can use the NTDSUtil.exe utility to compact the database. When compacting ntds.dit, you need to have enough free disk space to hold a copy of ...

In Windows Server 2008 however, a new feature has been added into NTDSUTIL that can improve the efficacy of bringing back these old objects. The new SNAPSHOT submenu allows you to create and later ...