"Infrastructure" OU turns into an infrastructureUpdate type and can't delete

[Charles Kerekes]

Hello everyone,

> A while ago, I created an OU called Infrastructure in my Active Directory
> tree. It was intended to hold the user objects representing my
> Infrastructure department. I ended up not using the OU. Now I want to
> pouplate the OU, but I noticed that its icon has become a dog-eared page
> with a Window in it, and the object is now defined as object class
> "infrastructureUpdate". When I right click on the object, the context
menu
> shows only Refresh, Properties, and Help. I can't delete it.

The same exact thing happened to me as the above posting from David on
11/20/2000. Since I also called my OU "Infrastructure" and it became a type
of "infrastructureUpdate", I am wondering if this word causes the problem.

I attempted to delete the object with ADSI Edit, but it won't let me. My
current workaround is to call my OU "Infrastructure1", but that looks really
ugly. Does anyone has a way to delete this? Thanks.

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From: David (dcoo...@earthlink.net)
Subject: Unknown Object... How to delete?
Date: 2000-11-20 13:58:31 PST

A while ago, I created an OU called Infrastructure in my Active Directory
tree. It was intended to hold the user objects representing my
Infrastructure department. I ended up not using the OU. Now I want to
pouplate the OU, but I noticed that its icon has become a dog-eared page
with a Window in it, and the object is now defined as object class
"infrastructureUpdate". When I right click on the object, the context menu
shows only Refresh, Properties, and Help. I can't delete it.

I assume that some event changed the OU object to an unknown object. I want
to re-create the Infrastructure OU but can't until I delete the unknown
object. But there is no apparent way to delete it through the MMC
interface.

Is it safe to delete this object? How can I delete it?

Thanks.

[Don Hacherl [MS]]

I think what actually happened is that you *tried* to create an OU named
infrastructure, and your add attempt failed because something was
already present with that name. Look at the creation time on the
Infrastructure object and you'll find that it was created during the
dcpromo process, and has the same create time as the domain head itself.
Your object didn't suddenly change class, because "your" object never
existed. And the preexisting Infrastructure is used by the system, and
cannot be moved, renamed, or deleted. Sorry if we ended up claiming a
desirable name.

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Don Hacherl
Active Directory Development Lead
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"Charles Kerekes" <CKereke...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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[Charles Kerekes]

Don,

Thanks for the clarification. After further study, I now see that
Infrastructure is a system object.

I considered the possibility that I thought I created the OU, but it
actually failed and I just wasn't paying enough attention to notice. This is
possible, but I find it strange that David in his 11/20/2000 posting would
have made the same exact oversight.

> Sorry if we ended up claiming a desirable name.

Yes, "Infrastructure" is a desirable OU name. Knowing that I cannot have it,
I settled on "Infrastructure Resources".

Thanks again for your help.

Charlie

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