Here is a damn fine util from Sysinternals! I was advised a server was off the net and could be deleted from AD, so sent an email round my colleagues and one of them comes back, a day later, saying..."Thats a virtual system and live on that box, it's switched off though" twenty minutes or so later I get the shout "It's ON!!" Now what do you do?
Well you should always have Sysinternals downloaded and then use the ADRESTORE command...goes something like this.....
adrestore -r name-of-deleted-object
-r switch prompts for the recovery to happen. hit Y=yes recovery done.
a quick dsquery and a dsget will prove the object is back...
dsquery user -name "*displayname*" | dsget user -dn
or
dsquery computer -name "*hostname*" | dsget computer -dn
should bring back the DN of the object and proves its a successfull restore.
Petri have a webpage here with some good info too AD Recovery from Petri
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