Powershell – Restore AD object from recycle bin

By: commander Date: August 7, 2021 Categories: Powershell Tags: Active Directory, AD, deleted AD object, Get-ADObject, ldap, powershell, Recycle bin, restore

If you have the recycle bin in AD enabled you can restore deleted items.

To get all the items in recycle bin:

Get-ADObject -ldapFilter:"(msDS-LastKnownRDN=*)" -IncludeDeletedObjects

To get one item (change the username):

Get-ADObject -Filter {displayName -eq "username"} -IncludeDeletedObject

To restore one item (change the username):

Get-ADObject -Filter {displayName -eq "username"} -IncludeDeletedObjects | Restore-ADObject