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Restore Active Directory User Accounts and Group Memberships

You are working on an Active Directory team that has had an incident where an important user account was deleted accidentally. In response to this, in this hands-on lab, you will be using the Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC) to enable the AD Recycle Bin. This will help restore any future user accounts with their group memberships that have been deleted accidentally.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Last updated
Clock icon Sep 02, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment

  2. Challenge

    Configure the Active Directory Environment

    • In the Active Directory Administrative Center:
      • Create two users, Sales User 1 and Sales User 2
      • Create a group named Sales Group
      • Add Sales User 1 and Sales User 2 to the Sales Group group
      • Create an organizational unit named Sales OU

  3. Challenge

    Restore Users and Groups

    • Enable the AD Recycle Bin
    • Delete Sales User 1 and Sales User 2
    • Restore Sales User 1 to its original location
      • Check to make sure its group memberships have been maintained.
    • Restore Sales User 2 to the Sales OU
      • Check to make sure its group memberships have been maintained.
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