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Title
How to restore AD objects? -
Description
How to restore AD objects such as users, computers and groups? -
Resolution
- Open the Active Administrator console
- Expand Recovery and select Object Recovery
- Select the backup you want to recover from and click Restore
- Click Next
- Click Find or Browse to select the objects you want to restore
- Optionally click Compare to see the differences between the object in the backup and in AD
- Click Next
- Select to restore all of the attributes or select the attributes you want to restore and click Next
- Select the DC you want to restore to
- If any of the objects selected to recover contain child objects (such as an OU) you can select to only the object, the object and everything it contains, or objects of a specific type
- Click Next
- Select how you want to handle passwords for any objects recovered that have passwords and click Next
- Click Preview to show what attributes will be restored
- Click Next to begin the Recovery operation