Deleting Organizational Units in Active Directory - Users and Computers

Question

I need to delete several organizational units in the Active Directory users and computers that were created for testing.

When I try to delete them, an error occurred: "You do not have sufficient privileges to delete TestDevs, or this object is protected against accidental deletion." I am registered as a domain administrator and I assume that I have sufficient privileges to remove OU.

I tried to change the OU properties, but I do not see anything except the "General", "Managed by" and "COM +" tabs in the OU properties - there are no options for deleting a protected object from the object.

Do you have any suggestions?

Answer 1

In order not to protect the object from accidental deletion, you need to undo the correct field on the "Object" tab in the OU properties. To see this tab, you need to configure ADUC by going into view mode on the toolbar, and then select the "Advanced Features" check box.

This will add new containers and tabs in the OU properties. On the "Object" tab in the OU properties, you will see the "Protect the object from accidental deletion" checkbox - uncheck the box and you can delete the OU.