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Need to delete/Disable a list of computers from AD. All Computers are in different OU
Zone: VB Script
Tags: Microsoft, VB
Hi

I have been using a couple of Application Oldcomp.exe and Netpwage to obtain stale computer accounts from the domain. This app on it's own would be ok but for some systems which cannot be removed and are still be used. So i thought i would look online for some VB script to use and have so far been unsucessful in getting what i want.

What i need is a vb script which will read from a list of computer accounts and then delete or disable them. all these accounts are in different OU.

does anyone have a script which can do this?
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Zone: Programming
Question Asked By: Madman2501
Solution Provided By: RobSampson
Participating Experts: 1
Solution Grade: A
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04.30.2008 at 02:43PM PDT, ID: 21474825

Rank: Genius

Hi, check out the script here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Visual_Basic/VB_Script/Q_23360030.html#a21457834

We could easily modify that to take input from a text file, if that suits your needs.

It disables computer accounts only.

Regards,

Rob.
 
05.01.2008 at 04:42AM PDT, ID: 21477770
that would be fine, how easy would it be to edit?
 
05.02.2008 at 06:21PM PDT, ID: 21490925

Rank: Genius

Hi, sorry for my delay in responding.  I have modifed the code to accept input from a text file.

It will prompt you if you really want to disable the account.  If you do not want this, alternate the commenting on lines 22 and 23, to automatically disable accounts.

It will also ask you for a reason, and change the account Description attribute to that text.  You could just hardcode this, perhaps with a date, by changing this:
                  strDescription = InputBox("Please enter the reason you want to disable " & strComputer & ":", "Reason for Disabling Account")

to this:
                  strDescription = "Disabled by Admin at " & Now


Regards,

Rob.
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If Right(LCase(WScript.FullName), 11) = "wscript.exe" Then
      Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
      objShell.Run "cmd /k cscript """ & WScript.ScriptFullName & """", 1, False
      Set objShell = Nothing
      WScript.Quit
End If
 
strInputFile = "computers.txt"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Const intForReading = 1
 
Set objInputFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strInputFile, intForReading, False)
 
While Not objInputFile.AtEndOfStream
	'strComputer = InputBox("Please enter the hostname of a computer to disable:", "Computer Account to Disable")
	strComputer = objInputFile.ReadLine
	
	strComputerADsPath = Get_LDAP_User_Properties("computer", "name", strComputer, "ADsPath")
	If InStr(strComputerADsPath, "LDAP://") > 0 Then
		' Alternate the commenting out of the below two lines to change between prompting
		' to disable, and automatically disabling accounts.
		strResponse = MsgBox("Are you sure you want to disable" & VbCrLf & strComputerADsPath, vbYesNo, "Disable Account?")
		'strResponse = vbYes
		If strResponse = vbYes Then
			strDescription = InputBox("Please enter the reason you want to disable " & strComputer & ":", "Reason for Disabling Account")
			Set objComputer = GetObject(strComputerADsPath)	
			objComputer.Description = strDescription
			objComputer.AccountDisabled = True
			objComputer.SetInfo
		Else
			WScript.Echo strComputer & " was not disabled.", vbOKOnly, "Disable Cancelled"
		End If
	Else
		WScript.Echo "Could not find " & strComputer
	End If
Wend
objInputFile.Close
Set objInputFile = Nothing
WScript.Echo "Done"
 
Function Get_LDAP_User_Properties(strObjectType, strSearchField, strObjectToGet, strCommaDelimProps)
      
      If InStr(strObjectToGet, "\") > 0 Then
            arrGroupBits = Split(strObjectToGet, "\")
            strDC = arrGroupBits(0)
            strDNSDomain = strDC & "/" & "DC=" & Replace(Mid(strDC, InStr(strDC, ".") + 1), ".", ",DC=")
            strObjectToGet = arrGroupBits(1)
      Else
            Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
            strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("defaultNamingContext")
      End If
 
      strDetails = ""
      strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">"
      ' Setup ADO objects.
      Set adoCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
      Set ADOConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
      ADOConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
      ADOConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
      adoCommand.ActiveConnection = ADOConnection
 
 
      ' Filter on user objects.
      'strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user))"
      strFilter = "(&(objectClass=" & strObjectType & ")(" & strSearchField & "=" & strObjectToGet & "))"
 
      ' Comma delimited list of attribute values to retrieve.
      strAttributes = strCommaDelimProps
      arrProperties = Split(strCommaDelimProps, ",")
 
      ' Construct the LDAP syntax query.
      strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" & strAttributes & ";subtree"
      adoCommand.CommandText = strQuery
      adoCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
      adoCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
      adoCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False
 
      ' Run the query.
      Set adoRecordset = adoCommand.Execute
      ' Enumerate the resulting recordset.
      Do Until adoRecordset.EOF
          ' Retrieve values and display.
          For intCount = LBound(arrProperties) To UBound(arrProperties)
                If strDetails = "" Then
                      strDetails = adoRecordset.Fields(intCount).Value
                Else
                      strDetails = strDetails & vbCrLf & adoRecordset.Fields(intCount).Value
                End If
          Next
          ' Move to the next record in the recordset.
          adoRecordset.MoveNext
      Loop
 
      ' Clean up.
      adoRecordset.Close
      ADOConnection.Close
      Get_LDAP_User_Properties = strDetails
 
End Function
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05.06.2008 at 01:51AM PDT, ID: 21505690
Thanks, just what i need.

so if i wanted to then delete these computers using the vb script and not ADUC could line 28 be change to somthing like this.

objComputer.DeleteObject

Thanks again


 
 
05.06.2008 at 03:46PM PDT, ID: 21511655
Yes, absolutely, although there'd be no point in changing any attributes before you delete it, so just change this bit:

      objComputer.Description = strDescription
      objComputer.AccountDisabled = True
      objComputer.SetInfo

To this:

      objComputer.DeleteObject (0)

and you could also remove the whole strDescription assignment.

Thanks for the grade by the way.

Regards,

Rob.
 
 
 
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