Quest^® Object Restore for Active Directory
Version 1.0

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June 2004

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Welcome to Quest Object Restore for Active Directory
System Requirements

Installation Notes
Issues and Limitations
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Welcome to Quest Object Restore for Active Directory

Using Quest Object Restore for Active Directory, you can restore objects online in Active Directory.

System Requirements

You should verify that your system meets the following minimum requirements before attempting to install and run Quest Object Restore for Active Directory 1.0:

Hardware

• Pentium 1 GHz
• 64 MB RAM (Any requirements required by a particular operating system supersede product requirements.)
• SVGA color monitor and card that support at least 800 x 600 resolution
• A pointing device
• A network card

Software

The following requirement applies to any domain you want to use Quest Object Restore for Active Directory to recover objects from:

• There must be at least one Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Domain Controller (DC) which is a member of the Active Directory domain you are performing recovery on. Use Quest Object Restore for Active Directory to connect to one of these Windows Server 2003 DCs.

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Installation Notes

To completely restore a deleted object, the following permissions must be in place:

• Reanimate Tombstone control access right (granted either through your account or you are a member in a group with the permission).

• Write access for each mandatory attribute that requires updating. 

• Write access to the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN). 

• Write access to each optional attribute that needs to be updated. 

• Child-creation rights on the destination container for the object class of restored object. 

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Issues and Limitations

The following issues and limitations are known to exist in Quest Object Restore for Active Directory 1.0:

• After you restore a user or group object in Active Directory
  If you are running Quest Object Restore for Active Directory in a multi-domain forest, you must restore memberships for Domain Local groups in foreign domains (all domains other than the domain the restored object is from). This ensures the object has complete access to all resources it previously had access to.
  
• Installing Quest ActiveRoles and Quest Object Restore for Active Directory.
  Install Quest ActiveRoles first then install Quest Object Restore for Active Directory. Otherwise, ActiveRoles reports may not be created.
  
• Quest Reporter or Quest ActiveRoles installations.
  If either Quest Reporter or Quest ActiveRoles is installed with Quest Object Restore for Active Directory, and then either is removed, you may need to license Quest Object Restore for Active Directory again.
  
• An object cannot be restored when the tombstone lifetime for the object has expired.
  The object is permanently deleted when the tombstone lifetime has expired.
  
• Objects that exist at the root of the naming context, such as a domain or application partition, cannot be restored. 
  
• Schema objects cannot be restored. Schema objects should never be deleted. 

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For More Information

Other Document Sources

The complete Quest Object Restore for Active Directory documentation suite includes the following:

• Quick Start Guide, which includes installation instructions and product walkthroughs.
• Online Help. You can display the online help by selecting an option from the Help menu.

  Contacting Quest Software

  Feel free to contact Quest Software for product information and class schedules. You can reach us in any of the following ways:

  Phone (USA and Canada)	949.754.8000
  Fax (USA and Canada)	949.754.8999
  Email Sales & Marketing	info@quest.com
  Home page	http://www.quest.com
  You can write to Quest Software at:	8001 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, CA 92618

  Technical Support

  If you have questions about using Quest ActiveRestore, please contact our technical support staff at support@quest.com. Please include the version number and, if your question is about an error message, include the error text as well.

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Contacting Quest Software

Feel free to contact Quest Software for product information and class schedules. You can reach us in any of the following ways:

Technical Support

If you have questions about using Quest Object Restore for Active Directory, please contact our technical support staff at support@quest.com. Please include the version number and, if your question is about an error message, include the error text as well.

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