Deleting an OU,Deleting the Objects in an OU

Deleting an OU

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to delete an organizational unit (OU).

Example

The following example demonstrates how to delete the OU Test in the Fabrikam.co domain:
Remove-ADOrganizationalUnit Test -Recursive
If the flag for ProtectedFromDeletion is set to True, this cmdlet does not delete the OU and it returns an error.

Additional information

For a full explanation of the parameters that you can pass to Remove-ADOrganizationalUnit, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Remove-ADOrganizationalUnit –detailed, and then press ENTER.

Deleting the Objects in an OU

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to delete the objects in an organizational unit (OU).

Example

The following example demonstrates how to delete the user U1 in the OU Test in the Fabrikam.com domain:
Remove-ADObject 'CN=U1,OU=Test,DC=FABRIKAM,DC=COM'

Additional information

For a full explanation of the parameters that you can pass to Remove-ADObject, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Remove-ADObject –detailed, and then press ENTER.