Tuesday, January 12, 2010

"Confirm Subtree Deletion" when deleting Computer Account

So I ran into an interesting issue last week when cleaning up old computer accounts in AD. I went to delete some old Hyper-V Virtual Machine accounts and got the following error.



It ends up that Hyper-V machines include additional objects to each computer account that you can't see through Active Directory Users and Computers. I haven't looked any further into this since I don't currently have the time, but for anyone wondering, yes it's safe to click yes on this pop-up box.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I ran into this today and had never seen it before either. I went into ADSI Edit and found that there were 2 containers under this computer. In my case both were printers. I deleted both of the CN=[PRINTERNAME], then went back into ADUC and was able to delete the account without issue.

Just an F.Y.I.