NetWrix Active Directory Object Restore Wizard

Restoring deleted objects, incorrect modifications, unauthorized changes to group memberships, and other information in Active Directory can be a difficult and error-prone task — sometimes it is impossible. Should somebody accidentally drop a user or an entire OU, you've got a lot of work to do on your weekend or Friday night. You will, of course, have to learn the AD architecture, including object types, tombstone, and attributes, and you still may not obtain 100% recovery of certain attributes (e.g., group membership, home directory, enabled/disabled status). Native and third-party backup and recovery tools in most cases require non-authoritative restore and DC downtime, and they don´t always have object-level restore capabilities. Summary: Limitations of Native Tools

NetWrix AD Object Restore is a FREE tool that allows you to quickly restore deleted and modified objects in Windows 2003 or 2008 Active Directory without rebooting a domain controller. This freeware tool goes beyond the standard tombstone capabilities in Active Directory and stores more information than what is normally preserved in the AD tombstone. Therefore, it´s much more reliable than other tools based on standard Microsoft Tombstone Reanimation interfaces. Moreover, no tool relying only on the tombstone will be able to revert modified and incorrectly added objects.

This tool is a part of the AD Change Reporter, so you will have a convenient change management solution for free, and you won't have to do manual tracking of unauthorized changes or perform routine manual recovery. You just receive a daily report of all changes and launch the wizard if recovery is required. Summary reports show what objects and attributes have been changed, deleted, or added in Active Directory to ease recovery tasks and to help you perform object- or even attribute-level recoveries.

The product has Freeware and Enterprise editions. Please review the side-by-side comparison for more information.