Recovering login ID

[Daniel D]

I accidently deleted a user's ID and login on a W2K
domain controller. I was able to recreate it, but now
they are unable to access their e-mail as the SSID no
longer works. E-mail is an W2K server running Exchange
5.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Dan D.

 

[Herb Martin]

I accidently deleted a user's ID and login on a W2K
domain controller. I was able to recreate it, but now
they are unable to access their e-mail as the SSID no
longer works. E-mail is an W2K server running Exchange
5.5. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You created a new account with the same name -- different
SID (Security ID).

Two choices:

1) Fix the permissions/ownership on everything
-- usually easy but might be severely complicated by things
like Exchange. SubInAcl.exe (ResKit) can help with files
and other system objects but I don't think it does Exchange.

2) Recover the User account from backup tape (systemState
on an AD) and use the "authoritative restore" in NTDSUtil.

The latter works if you have a backup of System State that
includes the account.

BE CAREFUL with this one.

 

[Hotwires]

If you have a good back up of system state you can recover
it with the Aelita(now Quest software)Recovery Manger for
AD. Download a trial copy and it will allow you to recover
1 object at a time. This is product got me out of a hole
once before. Here's the link:

http://wm.quest.com/products/recoverymanagerad/