Before understanding the GUI version, we must acknowledge its predecessor. is a free utility written by Mark Russinovich as part of the Sysinternals suite. It allows administrators to undelete objects from Active Directory that are in the "tombstone" or "deleted objects" container.
For years, sysadmins have relied on , a command-line tool from Mark Russinovich’s legendary Sysinternals suite. AdRestore allows you to list and restore deleted objects from Active Directory’s tombstone lifecycle. adrestorenet the gui version of adrestore