Removing description from ad_ou resource results in an error

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Terraform Version and Provider Version

Terraform: Terraform v1.4.6 on darwin_arm64
Provider: hashicorp/ad v0.4.4

Windows Version

Windows Server 2022

Affected Resource(s)

ad_ou

Probably includes other resources with attributes that are not being properly cleared by being set to $null.

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "ad_ou" "standard" { 
  name = "Standard"
  description = "Test Description" # Remove and re-apply changes after 1st run to get error
  # description = "" # You can also set description to an empty string to get error
  path = "OU=Users,OU=ad,DC=ad,DC=test,DC=com"
  protected = true
}

Expected Behavior

The description attribute should have been removed from the OU.

Actual Behavior

Error: Set-ADOrganizationalUnit exited with a non-zero exit code 1, stderr :Set-ADOrganizationalUnit : replaceAt line:4 char:2
│  Set-ADOrganizationalUnit -Identity "OU=Standard,OU=Users,OU=ad, ...
│  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
│ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (OU=Standard,OU=...d,DC=test,DC=com:ADOrganizationalUnit) [Set-ADOrgani zationalUnit], ADInvalidOperationException
│ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ActiveDirectoryServer:0,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.SetADOrganizationa lUnit

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

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