Restoring deleted security groups in AD

Hello,

 

I have been investigating the restoration process for deleted objects in AD
in response to the situation where by if you remove IIS from a domain the
group IIS_WPG gets removed despite the existence of other IIS servers and
other accounts in this group. Although the problem is fixed in 2003 SP1,
there is a concern that some one will bring up a standard DC with IIS
installed then decide to remove IIS as this is not required.

 

I have been following MS article, 840001 "How to restore deleted user
accounts and their group memberships in Active Directory", specifically the
section on "How to manually undelete objects in a deleted object's
container" as an authoritative restore is viewed as taking too long.

 

Problem

 

I can restore a deleted user account and a distribution group when I attempt
a security group I get the following error.

 

***Call Modify...

ldap_modify_ext_s(ld,
'CN=MyTestGroup\0ADEL:e9901a47-182e-41e8-b025-888d9e7c5f7a,CN=Deleted
Objects,DC=mydom,DC=com,DC=au',[2] attrs, SvrCtrls, ClntCtrls);

Error: Modify: Unwilling To Perform. <53>

Server error: 0000001F: SvcErr: DSID-031A0FBC, problem 5003
(WILL_NOT_PERFORM), data 0

 

I found an article on movetree where by case sensitivity was an issue,
however this did not help when tested.

I have not been able find any references in technet for this error.

 

Any suggestions and explanations will be welcome.

 

Thanks,

 

Eric Ayre

 

 


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