Question

A help desk technician accidentally deleted a Microsoft Entra ID user account for an employee who is still active at the company. The deletion occurred four days ago. You need to restore the account with all its original attributes and group memberships using the least administrative effort. What should you do?

Accepted Answer

Restore the account from the Deleted users blade in Microsoft Entra ID.

Answer

Create a new user with the same user principal name and manually re-add group memberships.

Answer

Open a support ticket with Microsoft to recover the deleted account from backup.

Answer

Restore the account using a point-in-time restore of the Microsoft Entra tenant.