Recovering deleted data with On Demand Recovery

Welcome to this brief demonstration of Quest On-demand Recovery for Azure Active Directory. In this video, we'll perform a simple recovery of an Azure AD security group along with the group membership. Many organizations assume that Azure Active Directory functions the same as on-prem AD, but there are differences. One notable difference is the simplicity of recovering deleted objects, either hard-deleted or from the Recycle Bin. Knowing what's changed between on-prem and Azure environments can be challenging in the dynamic cloud environment. Accidental, malicious, and time-sensitive deletions can put your organization at serious risk. Let's start our demonstration in the Azure Active Directory Administration Center. And we'll look at the SGIT security group. We currently have five members in this group. And we're just going to delete that. Next, let's move over to the Quest On-Demand Recovery for Azure Active Directory portal. Currently, I have my backup set to run on an hourly basis, and we can have a retention time of up to three years. So let's go ahead and select our most current backup, and we'll unpack that. Once that's completed, we'll go to our Differences tab, and this will show us what's different between the last backup and the live environment. Here we can see it is our SGIT group. So let's select that group, and we'll click Restore. Once that's finished, we'll go back to our Administration Center and just do a refresh. And you see we've easily recovered our group, along with its members, without the need of native tools or PowerShell.