{"id":181,"date":"2009-02-10T10:24:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T10:24:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T10:24:47","slug":"updated_vista_is_so_protective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Vista is so protective&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a <em>gotcha<\/em> with using the Active Directory Users and Computers tool on Vista is that it (very sensibly) protects the objects you create from accidental deletion but (very annoyingly) doesn&#8217;t inform you that it&#8217;s done this.  If you are using the AD Tools on Vista and you suddenly find that you can&#8217;t delete something you created, then check the Object tab on the object in question. If the &#8220;Protect Object from Accidental Deletion&#8221; box is checked as shown here within the red circle:<\/p>\n<p><strong>* You will need to select &#8216;View&#8217; from the menu bar and then check &#8216;Advanced features&#8217; first. *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wit.ncl.ac.uk\/blog_files\/adele\/protection.jpg\" alt=\"Active Directory object\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; you&#8217;ll need to uncheck it before you can delete or move it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a gotcha with using the Active Directory Users and Computers tool on Vista is that it (very sensibly) protects the objects you create from accidental deletion but (very annoyingly) doesn&#8217;t inform you that it&#8217;s done this. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/?p=181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ris-and-wds","category-software","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/isg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}