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Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Active Directory is a central component of the Windows platform, providing identity and relationship
management for the networks that businesses, large and small, rely on. ESG Lab began with a preconfigured
Active Directory environment and performed a full, single-pass backup of the active directory server.
ESG Lab then used the Microsoft Management Console to modify one user‘s properties in Active Directory as
shown in Figure 8. ESG changed the Description property for user Sally Smith from Chief Financial Officer to
Human Resources. A second user‘s entire profile was also deleted.
FIGURE 8. MICROSOFT ACTIVE DIRECTORY USER PROPERTIES
Using the CommVault restore wizard, ESG Lab searched the backed up datasets, selected the individual users‘
properties, and restored Sally Smith‘s Description object, as displayed in Figure 9, while also restoring the
deleted user‘s profile.