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If you are a system administrator managing an Active Directory environment and you need to disable inactive user accoutns then the following vbscript may assist:

‘Queries AD for all WIndows domain accounts inactive for 12 weeks or more and disables these accounts

dsquery user -inactive 12 | dsmod user -disabled yes

‘Queries AD for all active directory disabled accounts and moves the accounts to the OU -disabled accounts. Script will not run if the # of domain accounts exceed 100
dsquery user -disabled | dsmove “ou=Disabled Accounts,dc=example,dc=net” -safety 100

Reference the Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322684 for more details on dsquery and dsmod usage.

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