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Table 6. Active Directory-related command-line tools
Tool Description
MoveTree Move objects from one domain to another.
SIDWalker Set the access control lists on objects previously owned by accounts that were moved, orphaned, or deleted.
LDP Allows LDAP operations to be performed against Active Directory. This tool has a graphical user interface.
DNSCMD Check dynamic registration of DNS resource records, including Secure DNS update, as well as deregistration of resource records.
DSACLS View or modify the access control lists of directory objects.
NETDOM Batch management of trusts, joining computers to domains, verifying trusts and secure channels.
NETDIAG Check end-to-end network and distributed services functions.
NLTest Check that the locator and secure channel are functioning.
REPAdmin Check replication consistency between replication partners, monitor replication status, display replication metadata, force replication events and knowledge consistency checker (KCC) recalculation.
REPLMon Display replication topology, monitor replication status (including group policies), force replication events and knowledge consistency checker recalculation. This tool has a graphical user interface.
DSAStat Compare directory information on domain controllers and detect differences.
ADSIEdit A Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in used to view all objects in the directory (including schema and configuration information), modify objects and set access control lists on objects.
SDCheck Check access control list propagation and replication for specified objects in the directory. This tool enables an administrator to determine if access control lists are being inherited correctly and if access control list changes are being replicated from one domain controller to another.
ACLDiag Determine whether a user has been granted or denied access to a directory object. It can also be used to reset access control lists to their default state.
DFSCheck Command-line utility for managing all aspects of Distributed File System (Dfs), checking the configuration concurrency of Dfs servers, and displaying the Dfs topology.

This information came from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/win2000/win2ksrv/technote/adarch.asp Table 6

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