http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/03/31/how-to-perform-an-authoritative-system-state-restore-in-sbs-2008-2011-standard.aspx[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] If you have ever been in the situation where you had to recover an Active Directory object that was accidentally deleted within a multiple Domain Controller environmenten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/03/31/how-to-perform-an-authoritative-system-state-restore-in-sbs-2008-2011-standard.aspx#3418350Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:06:38 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3418350Dan<p>So the latest patches from MSFT suddenly have rendered my system usless. Similar issues to the 3 of 3 problem, then it then just dies. &nbsp;Restore to last known good doesn&#39;t work. &nbsp;Thanks. Here we go with a reinstall. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3418350" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/03/31/how-to-perform-an-authoritative-system-state-restore-in-sbs-2008-2011-standard.aspx#3417765Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:23:36 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3417765Mohammad Ali Khan<p>Thanks for nice article.</p> <p>Can this procedure work if we have used third party backup utilities like Symantec Backup Exec for backing up system state?</p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Mohammad Ali Khan</p> <p>Blog: www.ali.vg </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3417765" width="1" height="1">