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There is no built-in functionality for this. You could write a PowerShell script and run it as a scheduled task. Or if you have automation software in place (many larger networks do) like System Center, you may be able to do so through that software. A system center runbook, for example. <br />
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But by script or by software, it'd be a highly customized solution and not very portable, so you won't likely find a canned script or software package.
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There is no built-in functionality for this. You could write a PowerShell script and run it as a scheduled task. Or if you have automation software in place (many larger networks do) like System Center, you may be able to do so through that software. A system center runbook, for example.

But by script or by software, it'd be a highly customized solution and not very portable, so you won't likely find a canned script or software package.

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Which, to be clear, I did mention 3rd party automation software. It'd be impossible to list all 3rd party tools. There are plenty, some good, some bad, across a spectrum of price points.
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Which, to be clear, I did mention 3rd party automation software. It'd be impossible to list all 3rd party tools. There are plenty, some good, some bad, across a spectrum of price points.

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Thanks Mahesh.<br />
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that's really impressive.
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Thanks Mahesh.

that's really impressive.

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Hi All,<br />
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we are an R &amp;D company. we reinstall ( domain join ) computers frequently.<br />
let's say we reinstall and domain join (using different names ) at least 20 machine in a month.<br />
old machines list is growing every month and we have to delete those manually, which is painful.<br />
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<b> is there any way to tell AD to remove/delete inactive domain joined machines after some days by doing it's own checks !!!</b>
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Thanks,<br />
Rafi
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Hi All,

we are an R &D company. we reinstall ( domain join ) computers frequently.
let's say we reinstall and domain join (using different names ) at least 20 machine in a month.
old machines list is growing every month and we have to delete those manually, which is painful.

  is there any way to tell AD to remove/delete inactive domain joined machines after some days by doing it's own checks !!!



Thanks,
Rafi

Auto-Disable inactive Active directory computers

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