Active Directory Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Snapshots for Active Directory may be useful in scenarios where the organization has a need to compare information from a certain point in time (the time the snapshot was taken) with the information from another point in time (for instance: today).

Creating an Active Directory snapshot requires the Volume Shadow Copy functionality and a functional Active Directory VSS Writer. These features are available by default on Windows Server. However, if anything is not working, check them first.