AD recycle bin is enabled but Deleted Objects container is not showing in Active Directory Administrative Center.

Question

I have a domain in which AD recycle bin is enabled but Deleted Objects container is not showing in Active Directory Administrative Center. Can someone help why it is not showing?

Answer 1

Hi,

Please open PowerShell from the start menu and run

Get-ADObject -filter 'isdeleted -eq $true' -includeDeletedObjects 

This should return the Deleted Objects container and all the deleted objects.

If the Deleted Objects container is not returned, please run

Enable-ADOptionalFeature 'Recycle Bin Feature' -Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet -Target root.domain

Replace root.domain with your own root domain name.

If there are multiple domain controllers you may have to wait until the domain controllers replicated the Recycle Bin configuration change.

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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