<shamelss plug> NetPro has an AD data recovery product called RestoreADmin that competes very well with the Quest product. It's solves the AD object recovery problem nicely.
See http://www.netpro.com/products/restoreadmin/index.cfm. </shameless plug> -gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:37 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager Todd, thanks for your insight. Good points to think about. James Masters Systems Architecture and Engineering The Kroger Co. Office: (859) 363-2346 Cell: (859) 653-8644 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick, Todd (NIH/CC/DCRI) [E] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 9:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager Same here... Good stuff. To be fair though, most of the major AD players have these tools now. The thing about the Quest (Aelita) tool was its use of their own APIs to address issues like Domain Local Groups etc. I haven't kept up with the latest versions so I am not sure what direction they have gone since 2003. Latest information I remember was they offered you the option to use the MS API methods for recovery, or their special brew for more advanced recovery options. Now if put some extra effort into your query, you might get this thread nice and hot, and generate input from people like Stuart Kwan discussing supportability issues using the various recovery methods, Guido & Vladimir discussing in great depth the inherent problems of group recovery, various opinions on how to use isolates sites with rubber chickens, MIIS, ADAM to reanimate deleted objects (This seems to be a favorite topic of Gil's to use to fill in spots at DEC)... did I forget anyone... hmm maybe Robbie might take time away from work on his fields medal or latest cookbook to write you a Monad shell script that Joe will find a way to compile into a .exe to execute from a ADFIND query pipe. In all seriousness though, when evaluating DR feature for AD you will have a lot of things to consider, technologies being just one. The nature of the type of AD objects you want to recover and in what state should be considered (Groups, GPO's, etc, attribute data). How much time you want to dedicate to this operation? How much you want to spend? And who will support you if the recovery operations fail or seem to cause more problems. If you are looking just to recover deleted users, the various free tools out there will do just fine. I highly recommend that you start your DR project today by just using the good'old MS backup utility at a minimum to make a MST formatted backup of the system state and data from a domain controller in each of your domains you think has the most current AD data in your organization. That pretty much guarantees you can recover every object given that you have the data in some backup. And to all the people I mentioned above. Happy Holidays... and New Year. Todd -----Original Message----- From: Day, James (NPS) Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:03 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Cc: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager Hi James We bought this when it was an Aelita tool and loved the product - it pretty much paid for itself in one step the second month we were using it. The product is still good but I have nothing good to say about Quest support (but I could complain for hours about it if I am allowed to). There are a couple of other similar ones that may also be worth. Regards; James R. Day Active Directory Core Team Office of the Chief Information Officer National Park Service 202-354-1464 202-230-2983 (CEL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ger.com Sent by: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org ail.activedir.org cc Subject 12/05/2006 05:11 [ActiveDir] Quest Recovery Manager PM EST Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] tivedir.org Does anybody have anything particularly good or bad to say about Quest's Recovery Manager product? We are evaluating it for an 2 forests, and 3 domains. As always, thanks for all of your insight and expertise. -James List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.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@mail.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@mail.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@mail.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@mail.activedir.org/
