Friday 6 January 2012

Restore deleted object in 2008 Active Directory?

There are few tool by which we can check deleted objects. Few of them are:
1) ADRestoreNET
2) ADRestore.exe

How to use ADRestoreNET
-Download ADRestoreNET.
-Extract the zip file,
-Install ADRestore.NET.msi,
-Open ADRestore.NET from Start>Program,
-Select Domain Controller Name, and click on Enumerate Tombstone.
-It will display all deleted objects.
-Click on object which we want to restore.
-Click on properties to show object details.
-Click on restore option to restore it.

How to use ADRestore.exe?
-Download ADRestore.exe.
-Extract the zip file,
-Open command prompt,
-type "adrestore.exe" (Without qoutes)
-It will display the active directory deleted objects
-If we want to recover the deleted user
-type "adrestore /r" (Without qoutes)
-Click yes on objects which we want to restore.


Note: Once we will restore object, it will show in correct OU where it was stored previosly. But it would be in disabled mode, we have to enable it manually.

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