Using 2008 Recycle Bin to restore deleted AD DNS zone

[beefstew]

Hi,

I am trying to restore a deleted AD DNS zone using the 2008 recycle bin. I CAN see the the deleted DNS zone (and all the objects within the zone) when looking at the deleted Items container using ldp.exe but do not know whether its actually possible to restore the whole zone with one command or whether I have to restore each object manually? With the amount of entries in the zone, doing it one by one would take to much time, and a authorative restore would be much easier.

Does anyone know whether its possible to use the recycle bin to quickly restore the Zone without downing a DC please?

Cheers

 

[technome]

From the recycle bin, no idea. I back up the original working *.dns files to a backup directory, so I can always go back. If the file is a .dns file it should work.

Would this be an help...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180794

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[beefstew]

Thanks for the help but I managed to restore using the Recycle Bin with Powershell as stated below

Import AD module and run the following commands substituting domain.com with the Domain to restore

View the deleted zone:

get-adobject -filter ‘isdeleted -eq $true -and msds-lastKnownRdn -eq "..Deleted-domain.com"’ -includedeletedobjects -searchbase "DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=we,DC=int" -property *


Restore the deleted zone:


get-adobject -filter ‘isdeleted -eq $true -and msds-lastKnownRdn -eq "..Deleted-domain.com"’ -includedeletedobjects -searchbase "DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=we,DC=int" | restore-adobject


Restore all child objects:

get-adobject -filter ‘isdeleted -eq $true -and lastKnownParent -eq "DC=..Deleted-domain.com,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=we,DC=int"’ -includedeletedobjects -searchbase "DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=we,DC=int" | restore-adobject




Rename zone to original name:

rename-adobject "DC=..Deleted-domain.com,CN=MicrosoftDNS,DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=we,DC=int" -newname "domain.com"