Offline Defragmentation
Ø Use NTDSUTIL Files Compact option to
defragment and compress Active Directory
database
New DIT files results
Data from old DIT written to new DIT
Ø Parameter to this procedure is the directory (do not
include file name) to store compacted DIT
Example: compact to c:\compacted
Requires either copying the compacted DIT file over
existing DIT, or changing the current path
Ø New Database Signature Created