Because of the complex and critical nature of the forest recovery process, there is currently no end-to-end automation of it. The forest recovery process is more a logistical and organizational challenge of restoring business continuity than a technical problem of process automation. Therefore, the individual who administers the environment should create a forest recovery plan that is specific to that environment and then automate sections of it that can be automated successfully.
You can perform most of the forest recovery steps by using command-line tools. Therefore, most of the steps are scriptable. For example, Ntdsutil.exe is one of the most frequently used tools in the forest recovery process.
Although scripts can speed recovery, you must thoroughly test these scripts before you apply them in a real environment. Also, you must update them according to changes in the Active Directory environment, such as the addition of a new domain or DC, or a new version of Active Directory.