#ADMT 3.2 NOT SEEING THE DOMAIN FULL#
#ADMT 3.2 NOT SEEING THE DOMAIN CODE#
#ADMT 3.2 NOT SEEING THE DOMAIN PASSWORD#

To make it work you need to set the Read-Only or System flags on the folder where the desktop.ini file resides. You have correctly set the fileвЂ™s attributes to Hidden, System and Read-Only, but still your customizations do not work. You copy a desktop.ini file into a folder to customize and maybe localize it. The script checks for this and warns you if you are below the needed level. If you omit this argument, the default action is just to display the results and not move anything.ДЇor FindOutdatedComptuers.vbs to work your domain functional level must be at least Windows Server 2003. It will never delete any information from your AD, only move computer accounts to the Outdated Comptuer Objects OU. 0 mens just echo out the machines that have not logged on since the defined limit and 1 means echo out, but also move the comptuters to the Outdated Computer Objects OU (which the script creates).

The script must be run with cscript.exe and takes one command line argument a 0 (zero) or a 1 (one). IntTimeLimit: the number of days since a computer logged on to the domain

#ADMT 3.2 NOT SEEING THE DOMAIN CODE#

These are defined at the very beginning of the code and should be the only variables you change. The sciprt is called FindOutdatedComputers.vbs and in this post I would like to shareВ it with you.ДЇindOutdateComptuers.vbs has 3 user changeable variables: intTimeLimit, strDomain and strDC. X varies greatly from customer to customer, but a good start would be 90 days. I often find myself in a situation where I need to вЂњclean houseвЂќ in customerвЂ™s directories so I created a script that uses lastLogonTimestamp to find all computers that have not logged on to the domain for X days. So to figure out when CORP-PC1 last logged on to any DC in the domain we can query any DC for the lastLogonTimestamp attribute of CORP-PC1. Just like lastLogon, lastLogonTimestamp stored the timestamp of the last logon to the domain for a computer account, but lastLogonTimestamp is a replicated attribute, which means that now every DC knows the most recent logon time for a computer. In Windows Server 2003 a new attribute was introduced lastLogonTimestamp.

This could be done, but was tedious and time consuming. So to figure out when computer CORP-PC1 last logged on, you would have to query the lastLogon attribute on all the DCs in the domain and find the most recent one. The вЂњon that DCвЂќ part is important, because the lastLogon attribute was not replicated beyond the local DC. It stored the timestamp of the last logon for a computer on that DC. On Windows 2000 every DC maintend an attribute on each computer object called lastLogon. This in turn makes it hard to know how many computers are actually active. (Outdated in this context means вЂњhas not logged on to the domain for X days).

#ADMT 3.2 NOT SEEING THE DOMAIN FULL#

This leaves our directory service full of outdated user and computer object. Just as with user accounts, computer accounts gets left in the domain when the machine is decomissioned or reinstalled under another name etc.

#ADMT 3.2 NOT SEEING THE DOMAIN PASSWORD#

The password is set by the machine when it is joined to the domain and changed every 30 days by the machine. The вЂњuser nameвЂќ of a computer is its name with a dollar sign appended, e.g: MYPC1$. Computers have accounts in Active Directory and log on just as user accounts do.

Admt 3.2 not seeing the domain