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looking for a high level overview of account creation, terminating employees and how long to keep accounts and mailboxes for. &nbsp;This will vary depending on different policies throughout companies but maybe Microsoft has published a best practice doc on this. Im looking for verbage..
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looking for a high level overview of account creation, terminating employees and how long to keep accounts and mailboxes for.  This will vary depending on different policies throughout companies but maybe Microsoft has published a best practice doc on this. Im looking for verbage..

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For the active directory management, you may refer to the article from the trusted site of Microsoft-<br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728022(v=WS.10).aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.c<wbr />om/en-us/l<wbr />ibrary/dd7<wbr />28022(v=WS<wbr />.10).aspx</a><br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738135(v=WS.10).aspx" rel="ugc nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.c<wbr />om/en-us/l<wbr />ibrary/cc7<wbr />38135(v=WS<wbr />.10).aspx</a>
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For the active directory management, you may refer to the article from the trusted site of Microsoft-
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728022(v=WS.10).aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728022(v=WS.10).aspx]
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738135(v=WS.10).aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738135(v=WS.10).aspx]

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I need to find a good article on what Microsoft and/or Industry Active Directory Account management Best practices are. <br />
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Can someone provide insight?
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I need to find a good article on what Microsoft and/or Industry Active Directory Account management Best practices are. 

Can someone provide insight?

Active Directory Account management Best practices

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Active Directory

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Citrix

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