NTDSUTIL

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cswarr

I wasn't sure where to post this, but here it is: My XP
workstation, newly built, running SP1 and the latest
patches can't launch NTDSUTIL. When I try, I
get "ntdsutil.exe - unable to locate component This
application has failed to start because NTDSA.dll was not
found. Reinstalling the application may fix this
problem" However, I cannot find this file on the CD and
I'm nto sure if it's safe to copy this from another XP
box. Any ideas? Thanks.
 
CSWarr,

Hopefully I do not look foolish on this but I was not aware that ntdsutil
was available for WINXP Pro. ntdsutil is a utility that is available on
WIN2000 and WIN2003 Active Directory Domain Controllers and is used to
'troubleshoot/manage' ntds.dit - which is the file that is the Active
Directory.

What is it that you are trying to do? Besides run ntdsutil on a WINXP Pro
system.....

HTH,

Cary
 
My understanding was the same until I read that ntdsutil
was installed by default into the system32 directory in
XP. I found this out when I was trying to run the
dumpfsmos command from the resource kit and got the
error. I did some investigation and found that NTDSUTIL
is installed on XP Pro machines and that dumpfsmos appears
to make a call to it to get the required information.
 
cswarr,

Sorry for the late response.

I have installed WINXP Professional on many systems and have done a search
on several of those systems. I have not found ntdsutil on any of them. Are
these WINXP Professional systems to which you are referring upgrades of
WIN2000 Pro possibly? I will have to look at this some more.

Cary
 
Hi Cary,

On my XP system I have ntdsutil.exe. In the Properties/Version
tab/Product Name it says:

"Microsoft(R) Windows (R) 2000 Operating System"

I upgraded from Windows 2000, so you may well be correct.

Product Version is "5.00.2168.1".

Cheers,

Cliff

(MVP)
 
Thanks, Cliff!

I will have to look some more! I am just not finding it ( via a search ).
I sure hope that I am not spelling it incorrectly! ;-)

Cary
 
Cliff,

All of the WINXP Professional installs that I have done have been with the
OEM disc. I searched the disk and did not find ntdsutil ( that does not
have to mean anything ). I have even installed the Support Tools from the
WINXP Pro SP1a disc and there are only four utilities that begin with
'N'....

Is it possible that this is playing a role ( doubt it, but.... ).

Cary
 
Ahah!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304718

"The authoritative restore command in Ntdsutil depends on
Ntdsbsrv.dll, which is not included in Windows XP Professional or the
Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools package. Perform
authoritative restores from the console of Active Directory-based
domain controllers. Copy the Ntdsbsrv.dll file from a release version
of a Windows Server 2003 installation if you must run this command on
Windows XP-based clients."

Cheers,

Cliff

(MVP)

Cliff,

All of the WINXP Professional installs that I have done have been with the
OEM disc. I searched the disk and did not find ntdsutil ( that does not
have to mean anything ). I have even installed the Support Tools from the
WINXP Pro SP1a disc and there are only four utilities that begin with
'N'....

Is it possible that this is playing a role ( doubt it, but.... ).

Cary

Cary Shultz said:
Thanks, Cliff!

I will have to look some more! I am just not finding it ( via a search ).
I sure hope that I am not spelling it incorrectly! ;-)

Cary

Enkidu said:
Hi Cary,

On my XP system I have ntdsutil.exe. In the Properties/Version
tab/Product Name it says:

"Microsoft(R) Windows (R) 2000 Operating System"

I upgraded from Windows 2000, so you may well be correct.

Product Version is "5.00.2168.1".

Cheers,

Cliff

(MVP)

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:46:20 -0500, "Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]"

cswarr,

Sorry for the late response.

I have installed WINXP Professional on many systems and have done a search
on several of those systems. I have not found ntdsutil on any of them. Are
these WINXP Professional systems to which you are referring upgrades of
WIN2000 Pro possibly? I will have to look at this some more.

Cary

My understanding was the same until I read that ntdsutil
was installed by default into the system32 directory in
XP. I found this out when I was trying to run the
dumpfsmos command from the resource kit and got the
error. I did some investigation and found that NTDSUTIL
is installed on XP Pro machines and that dumpfsmos appears
to make a call to it to get the required information.


-----Original Message-----
CSWarr,

Hopefully I do not look foolish on this but I was not
aware that ntdsutil
was available for WINXP Pro. ntdsutil is a utility that
is available on
WIN2000 and WIN2003 Active Directory Domain Controllers
and is used to
'troubleshoot/manage' ntds.dit - which is the file that
is the Active
Directory.

What is it that you are trying to do? Besides run
ntdsutil on a WINXP Pro
system.....

HTH,

Cary

message
I wasn't sure where to post this, but here it is: My XP
workstation, newly built, running SP1 and the latest
patches can't launch NTDSUTIL. When I try, I
get "ntdsutil.exe - unable to locate component This
application has failed to start because NTDSA.dll was
not
found. Reinstalling the application may fix this
problem" However, I cannot find this file on the CD and
I'm nto sure if it's safe to copy this from another XP
box. Any ideas? Thanks.


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