Setting the „Protect from Accidental Deletion“ to the default

I’m reading a number of ITPro blogs – you’re never finished learning - and chasing the best keeps yourself on a competitive level. So – I’ve read Jorge’s blog posting on management of the “Protect from Accidental Deletion” feature (http://jorgequestforknowledge.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/managing-the-protect-from-accidental-deletion-option-on-ad-objects-through-powershell/)
He describes the different methods and possibilities to set and unset it using different available tools. […]

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What is the difference between category 1 and category 2 attributes?

You probably have read or heard that there are two kinds of attributes in Active Directory. Not the “good” attribute and “bad” attribute discussion or anything like that. I mean the technical separation of attributes into category 1 and category 2.
The separation is easy:
Category 1 attributes are attributes that come with the base schema provided […]

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Can I mark the “Description” attribute as mandatory?

This is a question someone asked in the public AD newsgroups. The background was that he wanted to have all his groups populated with a valid description. Newly created ones should be invalid if no description was entered.
Unfortunately, there is no magic switch you can flip to mark an attribute as mandatory. The attribute information […]

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