Hopefully you read this before Vacation!

I got it working thanks for your help.. I was my fault, I was doing to many test at once on VM machines. I started over from scratch and it worked perfect.

 

Thanks!

Mike

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

 

Make absolutely sure that you type the DN correctly – I just noticed you have a SPACE between “user,” and “ou=it” – if you entered the DN this way, it wouldn’t work…

 

P.S.: won’t read the posts for the next two weeks since I’m taking off for vacation tomorrow.

 

 

/Guido

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 4:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

 

Guido

 

Yes, I took a backup of the system state, rebooted into DSRM -> ran ntbackup and restored the system state, went to NTDSUTIL and then tried my “Auth Res” and it still failed.  Which is why I’m confused.

I actually have read the article you wrote in your hyperlink, and I know you read these post so I was actually hoping to get your opinion.

 

I will try again – and let you know what happens.

 

Thanks,

Mike

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Authoritative Restore problems

 

Mike, can you be a little more specific about the steps that you took to do your restore? This should work fine using the ntdsutil -> authoritative restore -> restore object “Cn=test user, ou=it,dc=mycorp,dc=com” command. Obviously provided you previously took a backup, rebooted to DSRM mode and have restored the AD DB (SystemState) to the DC – the Auth Restore needs to happen right after the restore of the SystemState, prior to the reboot of the DC.

 

Check out the whitepaper I wrote with Gil (http://www.netpro.com/media/pdf/NetPro_ADDR_Guide.pdf). Pages 11 to 13 walk you through how to do an Auth. Restore of objects, and since you have R2 (includes SP1), you can go right to page 21 to see how to recover potentially missing links of your recovered object (such as group membership etc.). Hope you don’t have a multi-domain environment and are heavily relying on cross populating domain local groups in all the domains in your forest – this adds extra headaches for the recovery of the links (also described in the whitepaper).

 

/Guido

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 6:57 AM
To: [email protected]
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  

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