Hi guys, I have resolved the issue..it could have been worse however but the group deleted was a distribution group. The painful fact was that it wasone that had 700 member users and I did not know howi could repopulate that fast. However I had done a csvde export just the day beforeand I ran iquery to get all users with the required attribute. Simply put, I recreated the distribution group again. I just pasted all the members into a text file with all usenames seperated by a semicolon and then pasted them all into the new group. The names were all resolved.
My fear is this; what if it was a user or a security group that was mistakenly deleted. Micorsosft shld have a solution that enables u undelete..like a Cntrl Z.mistakes can be made by anyone...a mouse slip etc...no one is perfect. Thx all... A restore is one option I don't ever want to take in a production environment.!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:32 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] HELP!!! Undelete required Heh, I actually typoed that response. It should have been > If you had K3 you would have at > least 2 options, one painful, one really painful. Here you only have > the really painful answer. The really painful answer is obviously recovery from a backup. I have never really done this in production and I have no intention of ever doing it. It scares me. If something was deleted, I have faith that the person who deleted something is someone who could be trusted to have made that decision. If they made a bad decision, the trust was misplaced. This is yet another reason to not let people have native rights in the directory like that. The painful answer is to recover the object from the deleted objects container. Depending on the type of object and the schema mods made you will have various levels of frustration with this because not everything comes back the way you want. By default, very little comes back. However, I much prefer this solution to recovering from backup. This is something I would actually do. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunter, Laura E. Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:26 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] HELP!!! Undelete required Joe, Out of curiousity, what do you define as the "painful" versus "really painful" option in 2K3? Now I'm curious. :-) Laura > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aramide > Adebanjo > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:54 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] HELP!!! Undelete required > > Ahhhhh!!!! > > I need a miracle.....a technical miracle..... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:36 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] HELP!!! Undelete required > > > You aren't going to like the answer... If you had K3 you would have at > least 2 options, one painful, one really painful. Here you only have > the painful answer. > > > joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aramide > Adebanjo > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:27 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] HELP!!! Undelete required > > Hi guys, > > What is the fastest way of recovering a group object deleted in AD > 2000?? The changes have been replicated to all other DCs > > I want something precise, nothing fanciful, something tested and > proved working...pls don't let it involve restoring from system state > backups, that's an option I don't want to follow... > > There should be a way...... > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
