[ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

[Mike Hogenauer]

I’ve been asked to write a Disaster recovery doc for our company.  I’m trying to delete a single user account and do an authoritative restore of that account. (in a test environment of course)   Before I deleted the test account I used adsiedit to verify the path to the account. Cn=test user, ou=it,dc=mycorp,dc=com From Directory restore mode, I can start the Authoritative restore but it always fails with:   Could not find object with the failed DN: failed on component “cn=test user”.   Authoritative restore failed Error 800ffff parsing input – illegal syntax?     I’ve reviewed http://support.microsoft.com/?id=840001 and it says I must use quotes – either way it fails.   I’ve even tried the workaround described in here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886689 Suggestions?    Environment: Windows 2003 R2   Thanks in advance Mike