Prevent Accidental Object Deletion in Active Directory

There are some things in life that if you live long enough you will eventually see. This applies to administering Active Directory as well. If you do it long enough, eventually you will see yourself accidentally delete something you shouldn’t. Whether its just a user or a whole organizational unit (woops!) , its never good news.


Luckily, Microsoft probably had a few people make this same mistake and implemented a feature to easily protect against it. If you view the properties of an object in the Active Directory Users and Computers console and go to the Object tab, you will find the option to Protect Object from Accidental Deletion. If you select this, you won’t be able to delete the object on a whim.


If you have people on staff who tend to be a little trigger happy then enabling this for all objects in your AD infrastructure may not be the worst idea.

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