Remove Protection Against Accidental Organizational Unit Deletion

I recently tried to remove an OU from my Test AD came and up against this message:  You do no have sufficient privileges to delete xxxx or this object is protected from accidental deletion.

To get round this I followed this procedure.

  • Ensured Advanced Features was selected in AD Users and Computers.
  • Selected the OU, the Properties and then Security.
  • Clicked the Advanced button.
  • Removed the Deny option from the Everyone group.

I was then able to delete the OU.

More info:  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736842(v=ws.10).aspx.