Ok... I made a huge mistake today.. and yes i dont know what i was thinking.. i was trying to delete a distribution list in Active Directory.. I didnt realize i had right clicked on the actual folder containing the distribution lists and deleted the entire folder which included all distribution lists. can i get this back,without restoring entire exchange environment from backup? Thanks in advance.

so i found this http://www.petri.co.il/manually-undeleting-objects-windows-active-directory-ad.htm and ran ldp.exe from command prompt. i follow the instructions and am getting the following error: Error: Modify: No Such Object. <32> Server error: 0000208D: Nameerr:DSID-031001CD, problem 2001

so since i deleted the actual OU. the OU was not there to restore the individual objects to. so now im trying to restore the OU and getting error: Error: Modify: Unwilling to Perform. <53> Server error: 00002077: SvcErr:DSID-031B0D29, Problem 5003 what im trying to us as new dn path value: CN=Distribution Groups,OU=MyBusiness,DC="my dc",DC=local

I couldnt get the OU to restore, so i had to do the following: i recreated the OU from AD by right clicking on parent OU and selecting new>organizational unit.. after i recreated the OU, i was able to restore the individual objects (distribution lists) using LDP.exe. each object restored had lost its exchange email settings so..i then had to right click on the object, exchange tasks, and "remove exchange attributes". i then had to right click on the object, exchange tasks, and "establish email address on groups". this recreated the email side of the object. each object restored had lost its members as well. so i had to re propagate those entrys.