Pruning AD Objects

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Mike Towan

I posted this a few weeks ago but it got lost when the
site was having web issues.... sorry for the repost..

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to prune old
objects from AD. I have some old objects from before
migration from NT and some objects that have been renamed,
removed machine, etc. that some of my techs didn't remove
accounts for. Is there any way to delete computer objects
based on last time modifed, etc?

Thanks for any help!
 
In windows 2003 help seasrch for ntdsutil. Ntdsutil.exe is a command-line
tool that provides management facilities for Active Directory. Use Ntdsutil
to perform database maintenance of Active Directory, manage and control
single master operations, remove metadata left behind by domain controllers
that were removed from the network without being properly uninstalled, and
create application directory partitions.

It will perform the funtions you are looking for.

dw
 
In Win2000 as well.

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Herb Martin
Don Wilwol said:
In windows 2003 help seasrch for ntdsutil. Ntdsutil.exe is a command-line
tool that provides management facilities for Active Directory. Use Ntdsutil
to perform database maintenance of Active Directory, manage and control
single master operations, remove metadata left behind by domain controllers
that were removed from the network without being properly uninstalled, and
create application directory partitions.

It will perform the funtions you are looking for.

dw
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-----Original Message-----
In windows 2003 help seasrch for ntdsutil. Ntdsutil.exe is a command-line
tool that provides management facilities for Active Directory. Use Ntdsutil
to perform database maintenance of Active Directory, manage and control
single master operations, remove metadata left behind by domain controllers
that were removed from the network without being properly uninstalled, and
create application directory partitions.

It will perform the funtions you are looking for.

dw


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Don Wilwol
Collective Technologies
http://www.collectivetech.com



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thanks for the info Herb and Don!
-----Original Message-----
In windows 2003 help seasrch for ntdsutil. Ntdsutil.exe is a command-line
tool that provides management facilities for Active Directory. Use Ntdsutil
to perform database maintenance of Active Directory, manage and control
single master operations, remove metadata left behind by domain controllers
that were removed from the network without being properly uninstalled, and
create application directory partitions.

It will perform the funtions you are looking for.

dw


--
Don Wilwol
Collective Technologies
http://www.collectivetech.com



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