{"id":37,"date":"2009-12-15T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T00:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-02-10T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T19:08:05","slug":"active-directory-management-with-active-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/messaging\/active-directory-management-with-active-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory Management with Active Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a need the other day to restore a deleted OU from a Windows 2003 Active Directory. \u00a0This used to be such a big deal; requiring the AD, Server and Backup guys all working together. \u00a0Authoritative\u00a0restores are such a pain in the rear, but Active Administrator by Scriptlogic has made this a non-issue. \u00a0We can pick an OU from one of the scheduled backups and re-animate the object with ease. \u00a0It almost makes you want to delete stuff just so you can restore it.<\/p>\n<p>The product is a little\u00a0pricey, but it only takes one or two restores for it to pay for itself. \u00a0I would highly recommend this product to anyone responsible for managing active directory.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to a case study I was interviewed for several months ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptlogic.com\/CaseStudies\/Download\/state-of-indiana-case-study.pdf\">http:\/\/www.scriptlogic.com\/CaseStudies\/Download\/state-of-indiana-case-study.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a need the other day to restore a deleted OU from a Windows 2003 Active Directory. \u00a0This used to be such a big deal; requiring the AD, Server and Backup guys all working together. \u00a0Authoritative\u00a0restores are such a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/messaging\/active-directory-management-with-active-administrator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterpriseadmins.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}