Windows Server - How to AUTOMATICALLY drop Inactive Computers Accounts from Domain

Asked By Francisco

17-Sep-09 02:30 PM

Hello ... thanks in advance for any assistance.

Environment:
Windows 2003 Servers
Windows XP PCs

Question ... is there a way to drop inactive computers (computers that users
have not logged into for let us say 90 days) through a GPO?  It does not have to
remove the computer account out of Active Directory, but at least not allow a
user to log into it if the inactive time has been exceeded.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

17-Sep-09 02:38 PM

You can give Joe Richard's utility, 'oldcmp.exe' a shot to find them, then
manually delete them, or disable them.

OldCmp, Dec 28, 2004
www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/oldcmp/index.htm

If you want to automatically remove them, that would require a little bit of
scripting. It is always good, however, to insure that the machines are truly
workstations or laptops that have not been used instead of something else
that you would not want to accidentally automatically delete.

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17-Sep-09 03:22 PM

Howdie!

Francisco schrieb:

I second Ace's suggestion. Oldcmp is the tool to use. It either reports
the inactive computers in a nicely readable output (it has an HTML
output option) or deletes the inactive computer accounts. It is pretty
flexible in its use.

Cheers,
Florian
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18-Sep-09 02:54 AM

Hello Francisco,

There is no automatic way to do it. Personal i think this a good option,
better control this kind of tasks manual. We have some users leaving between
6-12 month our main offices without there machines. So if you have an automated
way, you have still to make a kind of manual control of that machines, so
that they not got kicked out.

And as mentioned by the others OldCmp i s a nice tool for this.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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14-Oct-09 05:12 PM

OLDCMP from joeware.net

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