Enabling AD Recycle Bin

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Hi All, Trying to enable the AD Recycle bin, and it fails with an error message;

'A referral was returned from the server'

I have tried via PowerShell and get the below error;

import-module activedirectory
Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity 'CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features,CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=local' -Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet -Target 'domain.local'

Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing operation "Enable" on Target "Recycle Bin Feature"
[Y] Yes  [A]  Yes to All  [N]  No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help <default is "Y">: y
Enable-ADOptionalFeature : A referral was returened from the server
At line:1 char:1
+ Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity 'CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features, ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       + CategoryInfo                      : NotSpecified: (CN=Recycle Bin ...domain,DC=local:ADOptionalFeature)  [Enable-ADOptionalFeature], ADException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryServer:8235,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.EnableADOptionalFeature

Are you sure it shouldn't just be:

Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity 'CN=Recycle Bin Feature' -Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet -Target 'domain.local'

I've never tired enabling the recycling bin for AD but when installing roles it's usually just the role name, not the full distingushedname of the service.

@justin-siegard I meant to take out the cn= also

@Justin-Siegard I tried your command but get the same error message.

@waqkas-ahmed said in Enabling AD Recycle Bin:

Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity 'CN=Recycle Bin Feature,CN=Optional Features,CN=Directory Service,CN=Windows NT,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=local' -Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet -Target 'domain.local'

Verify

• Get-ADOptionalFeature -Filter 'name -like "Recycle Bin Feature"' you should see EnabledScopes: {}
• Are you running this command from either the Domain Naming Master or the Schema Master?
• is the Forest Functional level at Server 2008 R2 or later?
• Are you running command from Administrative Mode?

I've seen posts where someone has been successful as @Justin-Siegard posted just using the forest NetBIOS name and simplifying the command down to:
Enable-ADOptionalFeature -Identity 'Recycle Bin Feature' -Scope ForestOrConfigurationSet -Target DOMAIN

@Ronnie-Wong I am running the command as admin on Windows Server 2012r2.

Do I need to run the commands on the Operations Master DC?

Thanks.

@waqkas-ahmed,

It should be on the dc holding the Naming FSMO role.