Unable to delete objects from the Lost and Found container. (4374973)

Unable to delete objects from the Lost and Found container.

Old group policy and OUs that no longer exist are in the Lost and Found container and need to remove them.

To remove those lost and found objects you may try the following options:

Option # 1:

If those GPOs and OUs that are in the lost and found container no longer exist, then you may right-click and select the option "Unregister and Remove History". 





Option # 2:

The other option is to delete records from the ObjectData table in GPOADmin database manually. For this you may:

1- Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
2- Take a database backup.
3- Right-click your GPOADmin database and select New Query.
4- Run select * from ObjectData where Name ='ObjectName'. You would have to replace ObjectName with the name of the object found under lost and found container.


5- If the command shows a record for the object, then you may delete the record by running delete from ObjectData where Name ='ObjectName' by replacing objectname with the name of the record that you want to delete.



You may repeat the same steps to delete other objects under lost and found container.

NOTE:  
The information in the script(s) provided is known to work successfully; however, they have not been officially tested by Quest Quality Control. If any of these instructions are changed and/or incorrectly used, intentionally or unintentionally, this solution becomes unsupported by Quest Software Support and Development. Quest Support and Development  recommends always to make a backup of the current database prior to execution of any script(s) that may modify it.