Restoring Active Directory Attributes with PowerShell - Part 1
Active Directory Recycle Bin. Great Feature. But what happens if instead of deleting the object, some of the attributes are misconfigured? Enter Active Directory snapshot. In the first article of the Restoring Active Directory Attributes with PowerShell we are going to talk about Active Directory snapshots and later on we are going to see how to restore attributes on objects. So, what is an Active Directory snapshot? It's actually an VSS snapshot of the volume that the Active Directory database resides on. And how can we use that snapshot? We can use it as a backup, a way to avoid full replication when installing a Domain Controller on a remote site and may other ways but we are going to focus on mounting it and using dsamain in order to load the database and access live. Let's see some examples on how to create such a snapshot. Of course, you need to have the appropriate rights, like domain or forest administrator. To create a snapshot, we are going to use the ntdsutil e...