Restoring deleted objects

Recovery is important for any IT Infrastructure. Windows administrators perform deletion of users, groups, and computers to clean up stale objects or as part of a user account deprovision process. However, these operations can sometimes cause accidental deletions of live Active Directory objects and in turn affect the business. Recovery is very important in such cases. The faster you can recover these objects, the less impact it can have on the business.

Deleted object recovery till Windows Server 2008 was not a straightforward process and requires time and effort. It includes booting the Active Directory domain controller into Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) and performing authoritative or non-authoritative restoration ...

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