Active Directory -- Identifying Old Computers
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Have you ever looked in Active Directory Users and Computers and wondered whether or not the list of computers is a list of every computer that has ever existed since the beginning of time? Me neither. ;)
The following command will return a list of computers that have been inactive for X weeks. In the example below, I'm looking for computers that have been inactive for more than 4 weeks.
dsquery computer -inactive 4
Be careful -- remote users, on laptops for example, could accidentally get identified as an old and deleted by mistake.