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How long ago where they deleted?
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Try this tool, it may help..<br />
<a href="http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ViewDeletedADObjects/Info.html" rel="ugc">http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ViewDeletedADObjects/Info.html</a>
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Try this tool, it may help..
http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ViewDeletedADObjects/Info.html [http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/Software/ViewDeletedADObjects/Info.html]

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thanks Subsun, i will try that in a bit and let you know
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thanks Subsun, i will try that in a bit and let you know

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thx MK and Subsun, both are excellent approaches, i get zero results when i try to query. perhaps these have passed the tombstone life then.
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thx MK and Subsun, both are excellent approaches, i get zero results when i try to query. perhaps these have passed the tombstone life then.

yeah if they are past the TSL then you won't find them.

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Probably.. I think default tombstone lifetime is 180 days, is it deleted before that?
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Probably.. I think default tombstone lifetime is 180 days, is it deleted before that?

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thanks again. looks like this was past the tombstone life, not much we can do here.
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thanks again. looks like this was past the tombstone life, not much we can do here.

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we have an urgent need to restore 2 deleted security groups, however we only have the SID ID's of the groups. is there a script that can convert this to a common name so that we know which groups to restore from our backup?<br />
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many thanks!<br />
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S.
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we have an urgent need to restore 2 deleted security groups, however we only have the SID ID's of the groups. is there a script that can convert this to a common name so that we know which groups to restore from our backup?

many thanks!

S.

how can i convert a SID value of a deleted group to a common name?

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