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Excellent, good work to make the change
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Within our AD sctructure, I've discovered that a security group named &quot;company employees&quot; has been protected. Get-ADGroup -LDAPFilter &quot;(objectcategory=group)(ad<wbr />mincount=1<wbr />)&quot; proved this to be true.<br />
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This is preventing our help desk from changing passwords. I understand this isn't desired by any means. I'm just trying to fix it. How can I un-protect this group?
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Within our AD sctructure, I've discovered that a security group named "company employees" has been protected. Get-ADGroup -LDAPFilter "(objectcategory=group)(admincount=1)" proved this to be true.

This is preventing our help desk from changing passwords. I understand this isn't desired by any means. I'm just trying to fix it. How can I un-protect this group?

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