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ADRecycleBin.exe (Active Directory Recycle Bin) allows administrators to quickly restore deleted Active Directory objects via an easy to use GUI (Graphical User Interface). This is a free Active Directory Recycle Bin tool.

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If you or a colleague happen to mistakenly delete an object in Active Directory the results can be disastrous.  ADRecycleBin allows administrators to quickly find and restore deleted objects in Active Directory. If you are running Active Directory in Windows 2008 R2 native mode you can enable the Active Directory Recycle Bin. If you are running Active Directory in an earlier mode you can re-animate deleted objects.

Features

  • Supports Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Recycle Bin technology
  • Supports Object reanimation in earlier versions of Active Directory
  • Review deleted objects
  • Restore multiple objects at the same time
An Example
Consider the following scenario. We have some users, computers and a group in an Organization Unit called Richmond Hill:
A friend of mine I decide to delete an object i gnoring all of the prompts. First prompt:
As well as the second prompt:
To make things worse, the computer object was a very important shared PC with a ton of mission-critical applications, and without this object in Active Directory, no one can log on to this PC with their domain ID. So how do we get these deleted objects back?
Using ADRecycleBin.exe
Firstly, before you run ADRecycleBin.exe ensure that your account has the appropriate privileges to restore objects in Active Directory. You will want to run the tool in the same domain where you plan on restoring the objects.   Launch ADRecycleBin.exe and click the Load Deleted Objects button:
Unless you intend on restoring other types of objects other than OUs, Users, Computer or groups, I recommend you leave the Load Filter checkboxes as the default. Then click the Load Deleted Objects button. This will load all of the deleted objects detected based on the Load Filter checkboxes:

To restore all of the objects from our Richmond Hill OU click on one of the child objects, for example, I have selected the group called: LDAP://CN=ROL-RichmondHill IT Managers\0ADEL:86249fc3-ca0e-4614-b258-65fb15ff9ab7,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=beta,DC=local. Then I right-click and select the Select All menu item:

This will check all of the siblings. Incidentally, selecting a child node will automatically check its parent. Once we have selected the objects we wish to bring back from the dead, we click the Restore Checked Objects button:

This will initiate the restore process. When this process is complete a new window will open showing us a summary of the Active Directory deleted objects that were restored:

From this window we can copy and paste the messages of importance or export the results to a csv file to let others know what was restored:

When we close the Restore Summary window the deleted objects will be enumerated again:

Our OU called Richmond Hill has now been successfully restored:

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