[cisco-voip] Unity restore question

[Ed Leatherman]

The only thing I've been able to get DBWalker to tell me so far is if there
are callhandlers that have orphaned owner links. It seems like Unity just
drops the accounts out of the DB immediately and doesnt think anything else
about it.

On 10/13/06, Chris Soechting <Chris at inxi.com> wrote:
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>  Have you tried running DBWalker on the unity box? It should report all
> the subscribers missing AD accounts.
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Ed Leatherman
> *Sent:* Friday, October 13, 2006 1:13 PM
> *To:* Rasim Duric; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Unity restore question
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> Looks like this isnt possible currently.. I actually ran across a post on
> netpro forums this afternoon from Jeff Lindborg basically saying they tried
> putting this sort of thing into DiRT and it was a support nightmare so they
> discontinued it.
>
> The next challenge i have is identifying exactly which AD accounts got
> blasted before the user's start calling them in themselves. we have found a
> sort of round-a-bout way to do it but I was wondering if Unity keeps track
> of accounts it drops from the database when they disappear from AD? I'm not
> sure if that would be a log and where I could find it. Any ideas?
>
> On 10/13/06, *Rasim Duric* <rduric at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> >If you have just deleted user accounts in AD you should still see deleted
> subscribers in the unitydb (subscriber table). In this >case you could run
> the setup /sync from the \commserver\configuration\setup directory.
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> Sorry Ed. I tried this out on my lab unity server and it didn't work. Once
> I had deleted an AD account it automatically removed it from the unitydb. I
> have used this procedure in the past when I deleted eadmin and it worked
> though.
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> I guess, you could first create the userID that was deleted without mbox,
> connect this userID with mbax that was marked for deletion and than from
> unity just import this user. Unfortunately they'll need to go through the
> enrolment again.
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> Rasim Duric
> Network Analyst (CCS)
> University of Guelph
> Guelph, N1G 2W1, ON
> 519-824-4120x53146
> rduric at uoguelph.ca
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net]
> *On Behalf Of *Ed Leatherman
> *Sent:* Friday, October 13, 2006 10:56 AM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] Unity restore question
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>
>
> Anyone know if there is a tool or process somewhere that you can restore
> specific Unity user accounts from DiRT backup without doing a complete
> restore? Had AD munch a few accounts last night (or rather someone's script
> did), the accounts disappeared so Unity dropped its associated user
> accounts. I would like to restore them so they dont have to go through
> enrollment again if I can. Their exchange mailboxes were untouched at least
> so they didnt lose any messages.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Ed Leatherman
> Senior Voice Engineer
> West Virginia University
> Telecommunications and Network Operations
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> --
> Ed Leatherman
> Senior Voice Engineer
> West Virginia University
> Telecommunications and Network Operations
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Ed Leatherman
Senior Voice Engineer
West Virginia University
Telecommunications and Network Operations
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