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AD Protected from Accidental Deletion

I ran into something today so I thought I'd post my solution to speed things up for people... I had to remove a load of sub OUs from our AD.  This seemed  relatively straight forward until I the deletion failed due to all the OUs being protected from accidental deletion. This is a good thing. Here's the powershell to disable this: you will need to have the AD powershell add-in... Import-Module ActiveDirectory To turn off protection... Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "objectclass=organizationalUnit" -SearchBase "OU=UserObjects,OU=USA,DC=CONTOSO,DC=COM" | Set-ADObject -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $false I then ran the same thing again but set it to true to re-enable the protection Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "objectclass=organizationalUnit" -SearchBase "OU=UserObjects,OU=USA,DC=CONTOSO,DC=COM" | Set-ADObject -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $true