Deleted groups

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"" wrote:
> We are running a 2003 AD domain, getting rid of the 5.5
> exchange servers
> for 2003 servers. We finally cleaned one off, and with the
> information from
> Microsoft, deleted the server. I'm not sure of the method,
> but here is what
> blew up:
> Over 200 mailboxes were "screwed" up - lost the user, users
> lost rights,
> other goofy problems. These have been getting fixed. The
> bigger problem is
> that we lost an unknown number of groups, they are just gone
> as if deleted.
> There doesn't seem to be any reason as to why one was deleted,
> and another
> was not. Any reasonable way to get some of the more important
> groups back?
> Some were distribution, most were security groups, all were
> global.
> If we can't undelete, I guess we will have to deal with
> that, also.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Randy Reimers

See also: MS-KBQ840001_How to restore deleted user accounts and their
group memberships in Active Directory

free tools to undelete:
ADMOD from JOEWARE.NET
(http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/admod.htm)
ADRESTORE from sysinternals
(http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/AdRestore.html)

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