Restore Active Directory User Accounts and Group Memberships

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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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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 19, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

Challenge

Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment
- Install Active Directory Domain Services and configure the forest
  
  Download the installadds PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
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
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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