ID Recover Capability
Active Directory Recovery
Detect risky identity changes and recover Active Directory to a trusted state after cyberattacks or operational failures.
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Key benefits
Active Directory Recovery Benefits
Commvault helps identify risk, detect risky changes, and restore AD to a trusted state.
Identify identity risk
Find misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, like excessive privileges and insecure settings to help address identity risk.
Spot and reverse malicious changes
Detect risky changes and quickly roll back unauthorized activity to help stop attacks from spreading.
Test plans before an incident
Use repeatable recovery workflows to practice full forest recovery before a real attack.
Restore access without full rebuilds
Recover deleted or modified users, groups, roles and policies quickly without rebuilding the entire directory.
Restore AD to a trusted state
Use runbooks that automate and orchestrate full forest recovery to restore AD to a trusted state after ransomware or critical failure.
Protect multi-IdP environments
Protect Active Directory alongside Microsoft Entra ID and Okta through a single, unified control plane.
How it works
Features
Granular object-level recovery
Restore deleted or changed AD objects with precision.
AD change monitoring and rollback
Track directory changes, investigate suspicious activity, and rapidly roll back unauthorized changes.
Automated forest recovery
Orchestrate complex recovery steps with runbooks and guided execution.
Backup & Recovery for Active Directory pricing
Active Directory Pricing
| Standard | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|
Starting at $0.75 / enabled user / month | Starting at $1.25 / enabled user / month | |
Recover AD users, groups, computers, OUs, contacts, sites, and configuration | Yes | Yes |
Interactive, domain-wide comparisons of all objects and attributes | Yes | Yes |
Protect Group Policies, including settings, links, and security | Yes | Yes |
Rollback overwritten attributes across thousands of objects at once | Yes | Yes |
Recover Entra ID users, groups, licenses, conditional access, and role assignments | Yes | Yes |
Automated forest recovery for AD | No | Yes |
Simplify recovery planning with visual AD topology | No | Yes |
Automated forest recovery for AD | No | Yes |
Orchestrate the 50 – 100+ steps involved including AD restores, DC promotions, and critical AD hygiene tasks | No | Yes |
Support regular disaster recovery testing with interactive runbooks | No | Yes |
Standard
Starting at $0.75 / enabled user / month
Recover AD users, groups, computers, OUs, contacts, sites, and configuration
Interactive, domain-wide comparisons of all objects and attributes
Protect Group Policies, including settings, links, and security
Rollback overwritten attributes across thousands of objects at once
Recover Entra ID users, groups, licenses, conditional access, and role assignments
Enterprise
Starting at $1.25 / enabled user / month
Recover AD users, groups, computers, OUs, contacts, sites, and configuration
Interactive, domain-wide comparisons of all objects and attributes
Protect Group Policies, including settings, links, and security
Rollback overwritten attributes across thousands of objects at once
Recover Entra ID users, groups, licenses, conditional access, and role assignments
Automated forest recovery for AD
Simplify recovery planning with visual AD topology
Automated forest recovery for AD
Orchestrate the 50 – 100+ steps involved including AD restores, DC promotions, and critical AD hygiene tasks
Support regular disaster recovery testing with interactive runbooks
Analyst report
Simplifying and Accelerating Active Directory Recovery
See Omdia’s technical review of how Commvault IDRecover can help simplify complex identity recovery processes, streamline manual recovery tasks, and restore trusted identity systems more efficiently.
Related to Active Directory Recovery
Extend identity recovery with adjacent resilience capabilities.
ai recovery Solution
IDRecover
IDRecover is Commvault’s solution for fast, trusted recovery of identity systems. It helps uncover identity risk, monitor and detect risky AD changes, and rapidly recover Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta to a trusted state following cyberattacks, corruption, or operational failure.
Microsoft Entra ID Recovery
Protect and recover Entra ID users, groups, roles, conditional access policies, app registrations, and more.
See Entra ID
Commvault Cleanroom
Helps organizations test restored identity in isolation before reconnecting dependent applications.
See Cleanroom
Commvault AirGap
Adds immutable, isolated recovery copies and storage for last-line recovery protection.
See AirGapUse cases
Explore identity recovery scenarios
See how Commvault supports granular object-level recovery, mass rollback, and fully automated forest recovery to restore Active Directory to a trusted state.
Our Reach
Supporting more than 100,000 organizations
Customer perspectives on recovery from data-security-sensitive, always-on environments.
“Commvault’s innovation with Active Directory forest recovery will provide us with the confidence and peace of mind that not only can we recover our Active Directory data, but we will be able to do so quickly and accurately.”
“Active Directory serves as the core of our business operations and if compromised, key business functions could be impacted, Commvault's innovation with Identity Resilience will allow us to detect and roll back malicious identity changes as they happen so that we can maintain reliable authentication and access control while strengthening our overall cyber resilience.”
“With Commvault, we can build a defense mechanism to prevent cyberattacks and enable rapid recovery. With just a few clicks, we can restore a virtual machine or backups after an attack, which is vital in our line of work as a pharmaceutical company with very sensitive data.”
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Backup & Recovery for Active Directory?
Backup & Recovery for Active Directory helps protect AD data and configurations so teams can restore users, groups, policies, or entire forests to a clean, trusted state after cyberattacks, corruption, or operational mistakes. Recovery options range from single-attribute rollback to automated forest recovery.
Why protect Active Directory?
Active Directory is the identity foundation for authentication and authorization across business services. When it is compromised or unavailable, users and applications can be locked out, so recovery of AD becomes a prerequisite for broader business recovery.
How is Commvault different from native tools?
Commvault combines granular object recovery, interactive comparison reporting, and automated forest recovery with a SaaS-delivered control plane, helping teams recover faster and with less manual effort than scripts or point tools alone.
Does Commvault also protect Entra ID?
Yes. Commvault protects Active Directory alongside Microsoft Entra ID from the same platform, so organizations can recover users, groups, roles, and other identity objects across hybrid environments.
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