This snippet from Chapter 7 of Greg Shields’ new book Windows Server 2008: What’s New / What’s Changed is brought to you by SAPIEN Press. Get your pre-release copy at http://www.sapienpress.com/Windows_Server_08.asp.
AD Object Protection
Have you ever accidentally clicked on the wrong object in Active Directory Users & Computers and then hit Delete? Aiiieee! Individual object restoration in AD has traditionally been cumbersome enough that our result is usually recreating the object with all its properties. But that process is arduous too. Trying to figure out which members were in the deleted group or what properties were set for the deleted user is also a pain. Even worse is the deletion of an entire OU of data. If you’ve done that or had to clean it up when someone else did, you have my condolences.
More info and links to all the posts in this series at Greg’s Realtime Windows Server Community…
