Re: Restoring deleted security groups in AD

You may consider looking into a utility from Quest called Object Restore for Active Directory.(http://wm.quest.com/products/objectrestoread/) Although the authoratative restore should work it can be a bit of  pain and sometime you can cause your DC's to get caught in a reboot loop if the auth restore doesnt completely successfully, which I experienced once when restoring quite a few security groups. If this is one security group that doesnt have any members. TheObject Restore for  Activeirectory  utility will pull that item back into its location and takes much less time than the auth restores. That just my tid bit of support for that situation.
 
 
here is also a realted thread about this issue.
 
http://www.talkaboutsoftware.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory/messages/15531.html
 
 
Rob Higareda
Linux/Windows Systems Administrator
College of Public Health
University of Iowa
200 Hawkins Drive
E174GH
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: (319) 384-5472
E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/it
 

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