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Active Directory Snapshot Creation and Comparison Using AD Explorer

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You can use Active Directory Explorer tool for advanced Active Directory (AD) management.  This tool also includes the ability to save a snapshot of an Active Directory database for off-line viewing and comparisons. 

First you need to open/connect your Active Directory database using AD Explorer and then create a snapshot.  Later, you can use this snapshot to compare it with the current Active Directory database. 

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If you need to compare the AD snapshot, open previously created and current snapshots.  From Compare menu, select the Compare Snapshot option.

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As you can see in the following screenshot, it generates a report with “differences”.

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You can create scheduled snapshots by launching the tool with the -snapshot command line option.

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You can download this tool from the following location:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx

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