principal <principal> deleted from DCE Explanation: Principal <principal> was deleted from the DCE registry. This occurs when an atomic IMPORT operation fails during one of its suboperations. Such failure prompts a backout of all suboperations successfully performed during this IMPORT operation. Deleting the principal is one such backout operation. User Action: None. This is an informational message displayed only when /INFORM is specified on the DCE IMPORT command line.