Recovery a Deleted User Account in Windows 2008

Do you have a system state backup?

If you do you can use ntdsutil and do an auth restore. Follow this link to get all the groups back to.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840001

plz check this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840001

Unlike 2008 r2 there is no way to EASILY recover a deleed user account with out using a backup??

You can reanimate the deleted user object. But once the user is restored it will not have all the attributes, one main thing is the group membership.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.09.tombstones.aspx

Will the sid be the same though?

Yes the sid will remain the same.

CAn this be done in 2008 without using a third party utility??

Yes with the link I provided. Either using a system state backup or by reanimating the tombstoned object.  Here are a few other links to look over and a example using powershell and the SDM cmdlets.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771290%28WS.10%29.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379542%28WS.10%29.aspx
http://richardspowershellblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/reanimate-ad-tombstone-objects/

The A.D recycling bin is only for 2008 R2 correct..

I do not have a back readly availbe all tape are offsite...

Suggestion??

Yes the AD recycle bin is only available in 08R2. If you do not have a SS backup then you will need to re-animate.

The link I provided using LDP or the quest software from MED1975.

There is also adrestore.net

http://www.windowsreference.com/free-utilities/adrestorenet-the-gui-version-of-adrestore/

Can the quest software be installed on a workstation? Also in the mean time I create another account with the same name of the the delete account? SHould I delete the new acocunt before I recover the old one?

Yes - delete your newly created account.. The Quest software can be installed on a workstation - this is how I have it set up in my environment.

The quest software worked perfectly..