http://blogs.technet.com/activedirectoryua/archive/2009/04/21/active-directory-domain-services-mounting-tool.aspxThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. In Windows Server 2008, there are new tools you can use to create a snapshot of your Active Directory database at a point in time, ntdsutil snapshot , and then you can view theen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)