Jorge 's Quest For Knowledge!

A while ago, I wrote about the new feature within Windows Server 2008 to reanimate and populate the attributes from a snapshot backup. That post can be found here. I thought it would be interesting to summarize the tools available that can help you recover deleted objects for free. Some of the tools are CLI based and some are GUI based. Again, some provide basic functionality (hey, it's free!) and some provide advanced functionality (hey, it's still free you lucky…).

Tools available to save the day for free:

• OneIdentity Recovery Manager
  • Site: http://www.one-identity.net/
  • Type: Command line
  • Leverages: Object Reanimation and Attribute Population through AD snapshot backups
  • OS: W2K3 and W2K8 (and probably later)
• ADRestore.NET
  • Site: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/guyt/archive/2007/12/15/adrestore-net-rewrite.aspx
  • Type: GUI
  • Leverages: Object Reanimation
  • OS: W2K3 and W2K8 (and probably later)
• ADRestore
  • Site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963906.aspx
  • Type: Command line
  • Leverages: Object Reanimation
  • OS: W2K3 and W2K8 (and probably later)
• Quest Object Restore for AD
  • Site: http://www.quest.com/object-restore-for-active-directory/
  • Type: GUI
  • Leverages: Object Reanimation
  • OS: W2K3 and W2K8 (and probably later)
• ADFIND and ADMOD
  • Site: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm & http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/admod/index.htm
  • Type: Command line
  • Leverages: Object Reanimation and Attribute Population through AD snapshot backups (additional scripting/commands required!)
  • OS: W2K3 and W2K8 (and probably later)

Cheers,

Jorge

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