I’ve been meaning to get a final 2.0 version out the door for quite some time but work has taken up most of my free time and will continue to do so for a while longer. I hope you find this new version useful but please keep in mind that it is a beta version.

Special Thanks to Daniel Brad for some real world testing.

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  • DSCT 2.0 Beta 3 x64
  • DSCT 2.0 Beta 3 x86

    • Scalability

  • DSCT now supports ADs containing a large amount of objects (several 100k)

    • Performance

  • Big speed increase when restoring groups with many members (10k and up)
  • Big speed increase when comparing AD:s containing an extreme amount of objects to snapshots
  • Snapshot state is now saved to disk (1kb file containing a DirSync cookie) when DSCT connects to a snapshot for the first time. Subsequent connections to the same snapshot utilize the saved cookie. Big performance gain.

    • New features

  • View who was added/removed from a specific group since the snapshot was taken. Selectively undo/restore changes to the membership
  • Tree view

    • Misc

  • Support for running DSCT 2.0 on Windows XP has been dropped

    • Known Issues

  • Full membership restore of very large groups (20k+) fails on a DC running Windows Server 2008. I have not been able to reproduce this error on Windows Server 2008 R2. Needs some more investigation

    • Let me know
    Feel free to leave a comment if you run into any issues