A new nice feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 is the Active Directory Recycle Bin. Deleted items can be restored without rebooting the Domain Controller(s), restarting the Active Directory Services and even without any backuptapes!! Let’s have a look on that.
The first step is to enable the Recycle Bin feature. Make sure your functional level is Windows Server 2008 R2 and keep in mind that when you enable this feature, you can’t disable this feature anymore!!
1.) Start the Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
2.) View the actual settings of the Recycle Bin feature
Get-ADOptionalFeature -Filter { name -like “Recycle*” }
3.) Enable the feature for your Active Directory environment
Enable-ADOptionalFeature “Recycle Bin Feature” -Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet -Target E2K7SP2.LOCAL
4.) View all the deleted Active Directory objects
Get-ADObject -SearchScope subtree -SearchBase “cn=Deleted Objects,dc=E2K7SP2,dc=LOCAL” -includeDeletedObjects -filter { name -notlike “Deleted*” }
5.) Restore the user objects you want
Restore-ADObject -Identity “CN=User01\0ADEL:cc40dfd4-f671-4e90-90cc-3c8a33b18391,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=E2K7SP2,DC=LOCAL”
Restore-ADObject -Identity “CN=User02\0ADEL:394ec482-5bb2-4131-bdb4-7c92d7193987,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=E2K7SP2,DC=LOCAL”
Restore-ADObject -Identity “CN=User03\0ADEL:19f1bf8b-0227-486a-bc8d-ca72a342e116,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=E2K7SP2,DC=LOCAL”
Restore-ADObject -Identity “CN=User04\0ADEL:1b00b1c9-1f1f-4b74-b027-fa88feb4069d,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=E2K7SP2,DC=LOCAL”
Restore-ADObject -Identity “CN=User05\0ADEL:970b2597-4cf3-4971-87ea-9ada827e376d,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=E2K7SP2,DC=LOCAL”
6.) With this command you restore all the deleted items (Not Recommended!!)
Get-ADObject -SearchScope subtree -SearchBase “cn=Deleted Objects,dc=E2K7SP2,dc=LOCAL” -IncludeDeletedObjects -filter { name -notlike “Deleted*” } | Restore-ADObject
7.) All deleted Active Directory objects are restored now. Even the group membership of the users are restored!! Cool 
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