RE: How to generate a report of inactive domain user accounts

From: Laura A. Robinson (larobins@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 04/11/03

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    From: "Laura A. Robinson" <larobins@bellatlantic.net>
To: <potus@glacyar.com.ar>, "'Brian E'" <brian_anon@hotmail.com>, <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:41:23 -0400

    Neither of those scripts has anything to do with inactive user accounts,
    however. This particular issue was recently discussed here; see the "Expire
    accounts from Active Directory after a period of inactivity" thread. It's
    not quite as easy as you might think to script this.

    Laura

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Laura Nuņez [mailto:potus@glacyar.com.ar]
    > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:03 PM
    > To: Brian E; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: Re: How to generate a report of inactive domain user accounts
    >
    >
    > Hi Brian, you can do it yourself with Visual Basic or
    > VBScript using ADSI, i
    > think there are several code examples in the msdn site to
    > start with. Not too
    > complicate, either, and you can customize it as much as you
    > need for $0 :)
    > See:
    > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;192949
    > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323750
    >
    > Saludos, Lau
    >
    > On 11 Apr 2003 11:55:54 -0000, Brian E wrote
    > > Can anyone provide some suggestions or list of tools available to
    > > generate a report of inactive domain user accounts within an OU?
    > > (...)
    > Velocom Webmail
    >
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