RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

[Brian Desmond]

Just to make sure, you did a system state restore that includes that user, right?   Is there an attribute (group membership?) that you need such that you can’t just undelete the user?   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems   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