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Though there is a command line version of tombstone reanimation tool called\u00a0adrestore – sysinternals,<\/a>\u00a0many people are not CLI savvies and having a GUI version of this functionality could really help them out.<\/p>\n Insight on tombstone: Reanimating Active Directory Tombstone Objects – By Gil Kirkpatrick<\/strong> Main features:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Here are some sceenshots:<\/p>\n Enumerating tombstones Previewing the tombstone attributes Restoring a deleted user account Notice that if you delete an OU with accounts in it, you will have to restore first the OUs the accounts were in, otherwise the reanimation of the child object will fail. It is not enough to create an OU with the same name as this will be a totally new object in AD and child object’s lastKnowParent attribute will still reference the deleted OU. Here is a walthrough:<\/p>\n Initial state: TestOU organizational unit is deleted: State of tombstones (notice that lastKnownParent attribute of user and computer accounts reference the deleted OU): OU is restored (lastKnowParent points to the restored OU’s distinguished name): Both computer and user accounts that resided in TestOU are reanimated: Don’t forget to post your comments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ADRestore GUI version http:\/\/askaresh.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/adrestore-gui-version.html Accidentally deleted user, computer account or OU\u2019s from Active Directory. Don\u2019t worry, now you can get them back using ADRestore tool using GUI interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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