Steps to restore deleted Active Directory contacts using PowerShell
The following is a comparison between restoring a deleted AD contact object with Windows PowerShell and RecoveryManager Plus.
Windows PowerShell
Prerequisite: The native Recycle Bin in Active Directory has to be enabled.
Identify the Distinguished Name of the contact object using the following script.
(Get-ADObject -SearchBase
(get-addomain).deletedobjectscontainer
-IncludeDeletedObjects -filter "(givenName –eq
‘%Object_Name%’) –and (objectClass –wq ‘contact’)") Where %Object_Name% is the givenName of the contact object.
(get-addomain).deletedobjectscontainer
-IncludeDeletedObjects -filter "(givenName –eq
‘%Object_Name%’) –and (objectClass –wq ‘contact’)") Where %Object_Name% is the givenName of the contact object.
Copy the DN of the contact object and execute the following script.
Restore-ADObject -Identity $dn
Where $dn is the Distinguished Name of the contact object that you found out in the previous step.
Click to copy the scriptRecoveryManager Plus
To restore a deleted computer object,
Navigate to Active Directory tab > Recycle Bin.
Select the deleted contact object and click Restore.
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Following are the limitations in restoring AD contact objects using Windows PowerShell:
- The native AD Recycle Bin has to be enabled for restoration using PowerShell to work. Once the native Recycle Bin has been enabled, it cannot be disabled. On the other hand, RecoveryManager Plus's Recycle Bin does not require the native Recycle Bin to be enabled.
- The contact to be restored cannot be previewed before restoration, whereas in RecoveryManager Plus you can preview all attribute values that will be restored when you restore a contact.
- You can only restore contact to the last known state before they were deleted but with RecoveryManager Plus, you can choose to restore individual attributes of the contacts to any of their previous state.
Overcome the limitations of PowerShell by using
RecoveryManager Plus to restore deleted objects.
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