Active Directory Backup and Recovery settings

Default Passwords

This option allows you to set a default password when you restore deleted user accounts.

To enable this feature,

• Login to ADManager Plus and click on the Backup tab.
• Navigate to Active Directory → Settings → Recovery Settings.
• Click Show Passwordoption to view the default password for recycled user accounts.
• To change the default password, click Change and key in the new password.
• Click Save to save the changes.

Preserve Object Password

Select this option if you want to retain a user's last set password in Active Directory. This helps in restoring the last set password along with the user account during restoration.

To enable this feature,

• Login to ADManager Plus and click on the Backup tab.
• Navigate to Active Directory → Settings → Recovery Settings.
• Mark the checkbox against Preserve Object Password.
• Click Save.

Note: ADManager Plus does not store users’ password. When this option is selected, ADManager Plus modifies the AD schema to instruct AD to retain the Unicode-pwdattribute when a user is deleted. When deleted users are restored, the Unicode-pwd attribute is also restored along with the other attributes of the user, thereby restoring users’ last set password.

Force Replication

Enabling this setting will immediately replicate any Restore/Rollback changes to all other domain controllers in the domain.

To enable force replication,

• Login to ADManager Plus and click on the Backup tab.
• Navigate to Active Directory → Settings → Recovery Settings.
• Mark the checkbox against Force Replication.
• Save the changes.

Indexed data

• This is the backup data that can easily be recovered as it is available for performing restorations.
• Backup retention for indexed data is set to 6 months by default.
• You can manually specify the period for which the indexed data should be available for performing restorations.
• Minimum retention period for indexed data is 3 months and maximum is 12 months.

Archived data

• This is the backup data which has been archived for storage. You can index archived data at any time to perform restorations.
• After one full backup is completed, we will take a snapshot of the previous full backup in the archive repository, but the latest full backup will not be archived.
• Archive backup retention is set to 24 months by default.
• You can also manually specify the period for which the archived data should be available in the storage.
• Minimum retention period for archived data is 12 months and maximum is 60 months.

Editing archive settings

1. Navigate to the Backup tab > Active Directory > Settings > Archive Settings.
2. Specify the number of months for which archived data has to be retained in the Retain archived data for field.
3. Specify the number of months for which the indexed data has to be retained in the Retain indexed data for field.
4. Click Save.