RE: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU

[Grillenmeier, Guido]

yes, the basic restores in 2003 work the same way as in 2000, however, depending on your forest-functional level and number of domains in your environment you'll have additional tasks   IF you run at Win2003 forest functional level AND IF this is NOT a forest that was upgraded from Win2000 AND IF you only have a single domain, THEN you don't need to do anything else => using a systemstate backup and running NTDSUTIL / authorithe restore / restore subtree <DN of deleted OU> will recover everything, incl. the links of users in the OU to the groups they belonged to.   IF your deleted OU contained both users and groups, then you should do another authoritative restore on the same DC for the same subtree (without the systemstate backup).   There is quite a bid more to do in a multi-domain environment or in a Win2000 domain/forest incl. a Win2003 domain forest upgraded from Win2000. Steve already pointed those issues out in his post.  But I hope this situation doesn't apply to you.     /Guido From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grantham, Caron Sent: Montag, 3. Mai 2004 19:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU I forgot to mention that I’m working in  Server 2003 . Does this KBA apply?   Caron Grantham Systems Engineer, ITS Dept , [EMAIL PROTECTED]   ( 312-742- 2731 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lou Vega Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU   You might try the “restore subtree” using NDTSUtil…   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241594#3     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grantham, Caron Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] HELP I just deleted an OU         How can I get the OU with all objectes restored immediately