Restore Active Directory User Accounts and Group Memberships

1 hour
  • 3 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

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.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment
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
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.

Additional Resources

Lab Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the following to use this hands-on lab:

  • Azure virtual machines
  • Active Directory Domain Services
  • Active Directory Administrative Center

Lab Setup

This lab will require the use of an Active Directory domain, so the first thing that will need to be done will be to configure the domain. Because this environment will be set up on Azure virtual machines, there will be a few Azure-specific steps that will need to be taken and will be delineated in the lab objectives.

Lab Files

The lab files needed for configuring the Active Directory Domain Services environment can be accessed via the GitHub repository for this lab.

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