Re: Delete computer objects more than 5 weeks old...

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From: David Doumani (ddoumani_at_verizon.net)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:02:42 -0500

Thanks for that info - but it leads me to another question. When I write a
query in the AD Users and Computers console for all user accounts older than
90 days; it's consistent regardless which DC I connect to - even though the
information is not replicated - does that imply a query in the console
check's all DC's? I know my original question was regarding computer
accounts and the script can be modified but I am curious to know; or if
someone knows; why the 90-day query is always consistent... it's can't be
polling all the DC's as fast as the results are coming up...

I'll try to modify the link below to dump computers vs. users.

Thanks

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
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> David Doumani wrote:
>
>> We are going thru a pc-refresh that is leaving "orphaned" objects in our
>> directory... currently I dsquery for all computers inactive for 5 weeks;
>> pipe them to a cmd file and throw a dsrm in front and a -noprompt at the
>> end. We are making the assumption that if the machine has not updated
>> its password in 5 weeks then is no longer around - we've been doing this
>> for a few months now and it works out ok - but I've attempted to write a
>> script to do the same thing to reduce the having to create .cmd files,
>> etc... does anyone have anything that I can use as a model to create
>> this functionality? "dsquery computer -inactive 5 | dsrm" doesn't work as
>> it says in the help file, just brings up the dsrm help file.
> Hi
>
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> torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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