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by channa

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We are doing spring cleaning of our Active Directory and wondering if there is a utility which will help to find out if a computer is no longer active on our network. We have "pinged", however it hasn't been fail-safe, and it's too time-consuming for the number of computers in question. We'd like to remove some of the computers from Active Directory, however haven't found a way to automatically locate this type of info. Any suggestions as to utilities or scripts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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by ptchtech

There are many auditing programs, like Track It that can tell you when a computer was last accessed.
What I do as general practice is if a computer object does not look familiar or if auditing software shows that it has not been logged onto for a period of time, I will disable the computer object. If for another periodof time I don't get any phone calls from a user that they can't log
on I delete the computer object. To avoid the unknown in the future I put the user of the computer and/or the location of the computer in the description of the computer object for any new computer accounts I create, as well as moving them into their respective OU's for the departments they're in

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