You have an Active Directory snapshot. You need to view the contents of the organizational units (OUs) in the snapshot. Which tools should you run?

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Options

• Aexplorer.exe, netdom.exe,and dsa.msc
• Bntdsutil.exe, dsamain.exe,and dsa.msc
• Cwbadmin.msc, dsamain.exe,and netdom.exe
• Dwbadmin.msc, ntdsutil.exe,and explorer.exe

• A
  10% (4)
• B
  83% (33)
• C
  3% (1)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

We need ntdsutil.exe to mount the snapshot, dsamain.exe to connect to it and dsa.msc (ADUC) to view the contents. Before connecting to the snapshot we need to mount it. (...) In order to mount an Active Directory snapshot follow these steps: 1. Log on as a member of the Domain Admins group to one of your Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers. 2. Open a Command Prompt window by clicking on the CMD shortcut in the Start menu, or by typing CMD and pressing Enter in the Run or Quick Search parts of the Start menu Note: You must run NTDSUTIL from an elevated command prompt. To open an elevated command prompt, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. 3. In the CMD window, type the following command: (...) In order to connect to the AD snapshot you've mounted you will need to use the DSAMAIN command. (...) After using DSAMAIN to expose the information inside the AD snapshot, you can use any GUI tool that can connect to the specified port, tools such as Active Directory Users and Computers (DSA.msc), ADSIEDIT.msc, LDP.exe or others.

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