With Recovery Manager for Active Directory, you can perform the following tasks on deleted or recycled Active Directory objects:
In order you could selectively recover Active Directory objects, the user account under which Recovery Manager for Active Directory is running must have specific permissions. For more information on these permissions, see Permissions required to use Recovery Manager for Active Directory.
The result of the undelete operation performed on an object depends on whether Microsoft’s Active Directory Recycle Bin feature is enabled or disabled in your environment. Microsoft’s Active Directory Recycle Bin is a new feature that first appeared in the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. For more information on Microsoft’s Active Directory Recycle Bin feature, see What's New in AD DS: Active Directory Recycle Bin (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141392).
In an Active Directory environment where Microsoft’s Active Directory Recycle Bin feature is not supported or disabled, a deleted object is retained in Active Directory for a specified configurable period of time that is called tombstone lifetime. A deleted object becomes a tombstone that retains only a partial set of the object’s attributes that existed prior to object’s deletion. During the tombstone lifetime period, you can use Recovery Manager for Active Directory to undelete (reanimate) the object or restore it from a backup created with Recovery Manager for Active Directory. Performing the undelete operation on the object will only recover the object’s attributes retained in the tombstone.
When an object is deleted in a forest where Microsoft’s Active Directory Recycle Bin feature is enabled, the object goes through the following states:
While an object remains in the “deleted” state, you can use Recovery Manager to undelete (reanimate) the object with all its attributes, links, and group memberships that existed immediately before the object’s deletion.
Alternatively, you can authoritatively restore the object to its backed-up state from a backup created with Recovery Manager for Active Directory.
If necessary, you can use Recovery Manager for Active Directory to override the applicable deleted object lifetime setting and manually transfer specific deleted object state from “deleted” to “recycled” state. For more information, refer to Recycling deleted objects.
To manage recycled objects, you can use the Deleted Objects container provided by Recovery Manager for Active Directory. In this container, you can view a list of all recycled objects in the domain, selectively recycle deleted objects, and recover recycled objects from backups created with Recovery Manager for Active Directory.
For more information, see Recycling deleted objects.
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This section provides instructions on how to selectively recover deleted objects in a domain and how to recover all deleted objects in an organization unit.
To selectively recover deleted objects
To locate specific deleted objects, you can:
Table 9: Locating deleted objects
Task | Locating deleted objects |
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Sort objects | Click the heading of the right pane column by which you want to sort the objects. For example, you can click the heading of the Name column to sort the objects by their names. |
Group objects | Point to the heading of the right pane column by which you want to group the objects, then click the down arrow button, and click Group. To ungroup the objects, repeat these actions. |
Filter objects | Point to the heading of the right pane column by which you want to filter the objects, then click the down arrow button, and specify the filter criteria. |
Limit the number of displayed objects |
Select the Deleted Objects node in the console tree, then, from the main menu, select Action | Set View Options, and specify how many recently deleted objects you want to view. You can also perform these actions on any container located in the Deleted Objects node. |
View objects in a hierarchy | Select the Deleted Objects node in the console tree, then, from the main menu, select Acton | View as Hierarchy. |
View objects in a flat list | Select the Deleted Objects node in the console tree, then, from the main menu, select Action | View as Flat List. |
To recover all deleted objects in an organizational unit
In the Active Directory forest where Microsoft’s Active Directory Recycle Bin is enabled, you can use Recovery Manager for Active Directory to override the applicable deleted object lifetime setting and manually change the state of a deleted object from “deleted” to “recycled”. For more information about the “recycled” state, see Managing deleted or recycled objects.
To manually recycle deleted objects
To locate specific deleted objects, you can:
Table 10: Locating deleted objects
Task | Your action |
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Sort deleted objects | Click the heading of the right pane column by which you want to sort the objects. For example, you can click the heading of the Name column to sort the objects by their names. |
Group deleted objects | Point to the heading of the right pane column by which you want to group the objects, then click the down arrow button, and click Group. To ungroup the objects, repeat these actions. |
Filter deleted objects | Point to the heading of the right pane column by which you want to filter the objects, then click the down arrow button, and specify the filter criteria. |
Limit the number of displayed deleted objects | Select the Deleted Objects node in the console tree, then, from the main menu, select Action | Set View Options, and specify how many recently deleted objects you want to view. |
View deleted objects in a hierarchy | Select the Deleted Objects node in the console tree, then, from the main menu, select Acton | View as Hierarchy. |
View deleted objects in a flat list | Select the Deleted Objects node in the console tree, then, from the main menu, select Action | View as Flat List. |
You can also recycle deleted objects by using cmdlets supplied with the Recovery Manager for Active Directory Management Shell.
With Recovery Manager for Active Directory you can only recover recycled objects by restoring them from a backup created with Recovery Manager for Active Directory. Therefore, make sure that you have at least one backup that includes the recycled objects you want to recover.
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NOTE: Recycled objects can be restored only using the agent-based restore method. This means that the backup that is used to restore recycled objects is created from the target domain controller. For more details, see Agent-based method. |
To recover recycled objects
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