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Recover deleted user account from AD

Hello EE. I had one of our IT folks accidently delete a user account from Active Directory using the ADUC plugin on the Exchange server. I used a free utility called "Quest Object Restore for Active Directory". I was able to restore the account. I went into ADUC and enabled the account. I t did not restore any attributes. I can not get outllook to recognize the mailbox even though it still on exchange. Since I am remote to the location and there are many users restoring from backup was not an option. I am running Windows 2003 SP2 64 bit on the DC and Exchange 2003 on a separate server. There are no exchange options when I go into Exchange tasks on the mailbox. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
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you might need to reattach the mailbox to the AD account, does the mailbox in exchange server manager have a red cross icon?
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When you restore using that free tool or something like adrestore http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.tombstones.aspx you don't get all the attributes back during the restore as you have noticed  (this changes with the ad recycle bin in 2008 R2)
Do you have a system state backup.  You could run an authoritative restore  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc779573(WS.10).aspx
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No, there is red cross icon. I was hoping there was another way as I do not have a current backup and this is location is not close.
if there is a red cross, it's means the mailbox is detached. you can reattach it to an ad account.
How do I attach it?
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Ok. When I try to specify theusername it tells me an object with that name cannot be found. If I go to ADUC, the account is there.
not sure, I'd delete the AD account create a new one and attach the existing exchange account.

I'm not experienced with the program you used to restore the AD account.
Ok. Let me try that
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Thanks for the Help guys. It got me out of a jam.