how to recovery a deleted OU

[James]

hello all,
One of our administrators just deleted one of our OU's is AD. and now
users are down. whats the quickest way to recover from this. Please help

 

[Dinesh Tashildar]

Try, if you could able to get something from below KB
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;258310

As well , you can perform authoritative restore of the deleted OU.

-Dinesh

 

[Rodrigo]

hello all,
One of our administrators just deleted one of our OU's is AD. and now
users are down. whats the quickest way to recover from this. Please help

If you have a system state backup execute a authoritative restore with
the NTDSUTIL command.

Regards,

Rodrigo

 

[Herb Martin]

What everyone else said:

Do an authoritative restore with NTDSUtil.

"authoritative restore" is however MISNAMED as
it restores NOTHING -- you must first do a REAL restore,
the use ntsdutil authoriative restore [sic] to MARK the
portions of the database you wish to insist be kept, e.g.,
that OU that was mistakenly deleted and all of it's
contents.