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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Preventing the accidental deletion of objects

When working with AD objects, it is possible to delete an AD object accidentally. When an AD object is deleted accidentally, the impact on the business will depend on the AD object's role. As an example, if a service account for a critical service is deleted, the business impact will be higher than for the deletion of a test user account. With AD DS 2008, Microsoft introduced a small but important feature to prevent accidental AD object deletion. This is not a solution to recover from disasters but a solution to prevent disasters. In every AD object, under the Object tab, there is a small checkbox to enable this feature. This can be enabled when we create objects using PowerShell. Even if we're not using PowerShell, it can still be enabled using the Object properties window at any time. When creating an OU, this feature is enabled by default:

Figure 7.27: Protect object from accidental deletion

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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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