From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
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Recovery of Active Directory
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
Recovery of Active Directory
- Now many people believe that a good backup plan is a great way to maintain the integrity of your Active Directory database. But the reality is, is no backup plan is complete without having a good recovery plan. So let's take a look and see how to recover objects using Backup Recovery in Windows Server 2012. So I'm going to jump over to our DC-1 domain controller, and here on DC-1, I am going to go into the Tools menu, and I'm going to select Active Directory Users and Computers. I'm going to select an object, I'll take our Remote Office Users object, and I'm going to delete it. Am I sure I want to delete it? Yes, alright it's been deleted. Oh, but wait a minute, that was a mistake, we didn't want it to be deleted. Well, in a previous lesson, we had fortunately run a backup of this Active Directory database. So let's see how we can go ahead and recover from that backup. Now in order to do this, we will use the…