My problem is that I cannot delete an object from the active directory. It is a distribution list that was replicated from Exchange 5.5 to the AD using the ADC. Lots of other lists have replicated fine, however this object appears with the ?windows? icon, where all the others appear with the proper Group icon for Active directory. Also the type for this item is ?Unknown?. Whenever I try to delete it, I get an error ?Windows cannot delete object [name] because: The specified directory service attribute or value does not exist.? According to TechNet, in order to view the attributes of an object that shows up as unknown, I would need to take ownership of the object. However when I try and take ownership, using the administrator account (and the exchange 5.5 service account) for our domain, I get an access denied error. I also tried to delete it through ADSIEdit, but get the same error as above. I have recreated this group and it is replicating between exchange 5.5 and AD fine, andI just want to remove this group.
Does anybody know of a way you can force objects out of the active directory?