Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Recovering Deleted Items in Active Directory

Restoring objects with ADRestore.net

Guy Teverovsky, a fellow MVP from Israel, has written a cool tool that allows you to easily restore deleted AD objects. The tool is provided as freeware and has no kind of support, but from what I've seen, it works great. Some of the tools features include:

  • Browsing the tombstones
  • Domain Controller targeting
  • Can be used with alternative credentials (convenient if you do not logon to your desktop as Domain Admin, which you should never do anyway)
  • User/Computer/OU/Container reanimation
  • Preview of tombstone attributes

Enumerating tombstones



Previewing the tombstone attributes
Restoring a deleted user account



For more information on Guy's tool, please see Guy's blog entry announcing ADRestore.net





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