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https://community.veeam.com/discussion-boards-66/backup-heroes-wanted-join-the-world-backup-day-contest-2026-12918?postid=90737#post90737
World Backup Day is coming and, like they've done the past few years, Veeam is asking for the Community to share posts about how Veeam Data Platform has been used to meet a need at your organization, or even home! My story isn't too extravagant, but it did meet a crucial need at my organization.
We had an employee get terminated a while back for potentially suspect activity with a vendor. Upon being informed of this activity, senior administrators were tasked to look into any network accounts which could have access to our environment. After meticulously skimming through our Active Directory environment, we came across a couple accounts which could potentially be used to gain access to our environment. Without hesitation, a co-worker removed these accounts.
Fast forward 6 months → Organizational administrators had need to see activity history from one of these removed accounts, but of course it had been deleted from AD. Veeam to the rescue! 🙌🏻 Using the Veeam Backup Job which backs up our domain controllers, and perusing GFS restore points and Veeam's Active Directory Explorer, we were able to do an Active Directory "compare" with our production AD environment to quickly locate and recover the needed AD account.
Forensics of the account in question was then able to be completed as requested by our Administration. And thankfully, no malicious activity was found. Those Veeam Explorers are invaluable!
