Fixing The Server is Unwilling to Process the Request

The Server is Unwilling to process the Request While creating OU

The Server is Unwilling to process the Request while creating the OU

Organizational Units are an essential part of the Active Directory on the Windows Server.

Without OU, you cannot imagine the Active Directory Management.

Therefore, Windows Server PowerShell is a great tool, which accomplishes the task quickly and easily.

In this article, I will try to fix the error “The Server is unwilling to process the request”

In our scenario, I am running Active Directory on Windows Server 2025.

I am trying to create an OU under the name Sales.

However, the exact cmdlet to create a New OU provided by Microsoft is as below for both protected and unprotected OU.

New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name "UserAccounts" -Path "DC=FABRIKAM,DC=COM"

New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name "UserAccounts" -Path "DC=FABRIKAM,DC=COM" -ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $False

So, when I try to create the New OU with the help of the above cmdlet.

It gave the error, the server is unwilling to process the request.

After cross-checking the path and the domain name.

Everything was correct, but still an error was there.

How to fix Server is Unwilling to Process the Request

I just tried to run the cmdlet

New-ADOrganzationalUnit

Therefore, it asked for the Name of OU, I just typed the name as Sales, and OU was created.

Therefore, to create the new OU, I tried to remove the path from the cmdlet, and after removing this path.

I was able to create OU without any error under my domain, this was the protected OU

So, I ran the cmdlet

New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name "Sales2" –ProtectedFromAccidetalDeletion $False

It created the OU by the name of Sales2 without any error, and this created the OU which was not protected from the accidental deletion.

Now I know the way to create the Protected and Unprotected OU

Conclusion

It worked for me, according to me it’s not necessary to put the path, instead we can just run the cmdlet up to the OU name and that will work.

In this case, I am just talking about the cmdlet New-ADOrganizationalUnit.

Maybe you get this error for any other cmdlet that may have a different resolution.

But if this is the case, and you are getting this unwilling to process request while creating New OU via PowerShell.

Therefore, you can try this method and I am sure, it will work.

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