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CheckProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion.ps1

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Script

# This script will check if all OU's and default top level Containers
# have been protected from accidental deletion.

# Get the script path
$ScriptPath = { Split-Path $MyInvocation.ScriptName }

$ReferenceFile = $(&$ScriptPath) + "\CheckProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion.csv"

# Import the Modules
Import-Module -Name ActiveDirectory
$defaultNamingContext = (Get-ADRootDSE).defaultnamingcontext

$array = @()

# Check protection on all OU's
$OUs = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -Filter * -Properties ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion | Where-Object { $_.ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion -match "False" }
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red "The following"$OUs.Count"OUs have not been protected from accidental deletion..."
ForEach ($OU in $OUs) {
    $output = New-Object PSObject
    $output | Add-Member NoteProperty objectClass ($OU.objectClass)
    $output | Add-Member NoteProperty DistinguishedName ($OU.DistinguishedName)
    $output | Add-Member NoteProperty Description ($OU.Description)
    $array += $output
}

# Check protection on all default top level Containers
$Containers = Get-ADObject -Filter 'objectClass -eq "container"' -SearchBase $defaultNamingContext -SearchScope OneLevel -Properties ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion | Where-Object { $_.ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion -match "False" }
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "The following"$Containers.Count"top level containers have not been protected from accidental deletion..."
ForEach ($Container in $Containers) {
    $output = New-Object PSObject
    $output | Add-Member NoteProperty objectClass ($Container.objectClass)
    $output | Add-Member NoteProperty DistinguishedName ($Container.DistinguishedName)
    $output | Add-Member NoteProperty Description ($Container.Description)
    $array += $output
}

$array | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation "$ReferenceFile" -Delimiter ";"

# Remove the quotes
(Get-Content "$ReferenceFile") | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '"', "" } | Out-File "$ReferenceFile" -Force -Encoding ascii

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