How do you find inactive users in AD with ADManager Plus?

Follow these steps to find inactive users in AD using ADManager Plus. Launch ADManager Plus and log in with appropriate credentials. Go to the Reports tab and select Inactive Users under User Reports . Select the desired domain or organizational unit (OU) to search. Specify the preferred time duration for identifying inactive users. Click on Generate to get a list of inactive users.

How do you find inactive computers inAD using ADManager Plus?

Follow these steps to find inactive computers inAD using ADManager Plus. Launch ADManager Plus and log in with appropriate credentials. Go to the Reports tab and select Inactive Computers under Computer Reports . Select the desired domain or OU to search. Set the criteria for inactivity based on parameters such as Last Logon Time or Password Last Set Time. Specify the desired time period for inactive computers. Click on Generate to retrieve a list of inactive computers based on the specified criteria.

AD cleanup best practices with ADManager Plus.

Here are some best practices forAD cleanup: Regularly review and remove inactive or unused user accounts. Disable or delete unnecessary security groups or distribution lists. Clean up outdated or unused Group Policy Objects. Audit and remove unnecessary user and computer objects. Ensure proper delegation and permission management. Implement strong password policies and regularly enforce password changes. Keep track of stale DNS records and remove them. Regularly review and update access control lists and file permissions. Perform regular backups and test restoration processes.

Active Directory Cleanup Tool | ManageEngine ADManager Plus

Over time, users, computers, groups, and contacts can become inactive or obsolete, posing security risks and cluttering your Active Directory (AD). ADManager Plus helps you trace all inactive, disabled, account-expired users and computers in AD and manage them efficiently. Based on your organization’s AD cleanup policy, you can delete, disable, or move these accounts to another OU, all in just a few clicks. With ADManager Plus' intuitive interface, you not only get to automate AD cleanup, you also save valuable time and eliminate the need for complex PowerShell scripts or command-line tools, while improving your overall AD hygiene.

How ADManager Plus helps

ADManager Plus offers predefined, comprehensive reports that help you quickly identify and clean up stale accounts across your AD. You can:

Find and manage stale Active Directory accounts

ADManager Plus helps you detect and remove inactive AD accounts by allowing you to generate reports and delete, disable, or move users to a different OU, right from these reports.

Disabled accounts

With ADManager Plus, you can easily generate the list of user or computer accounts that are disabled. The userAccountControl attribute is used to locate the disabled users in the domain. You can manage these accounts easily by deleting them or moving the accounts to another OU. You can also delete AD accounts, enable or disable users, or move accounts to another OU from the reports' results.

Account expired users

Active Directory user accounts that have gone obsolete for a long time might have expired without either the user or administrator knowing about them. Writing a script to find expired accounts can be tedious, ADManager Plus report generator scans Active Directory and gives you a list of all expired accounts. Right from the report, admins can proactively secure their network by deleting, disabling, or moving expired users to another OU. You can also print and export account expired and other important reports like locked out users to XLS, CSV, PDF, HTML, and more.

Inactive AD user accounts

Using ADManager Plus, you can retrieve inactive AD user accounts, that is, accounts that have not been used within the last 30, 60, or N days.

Move, disable, or delete dormant AD accounts

ADManager Plus with its built-in delete, disable, and move features helps administrators manage AD accounts seamlessly. Administrators can generate reports on inactive users or computers and manage them instantly from the reports.

How it works

Active Directory group cleanup

AD users are added to and removed from AD groups from time to time, especially in a complex, dynamic Windows environment. Over a period, it might result in some groups that have no members. Such empty groups serve no practical purposes and simply add up to AD management burdens. Fortunately, the capabilities of ADManager Plus extend beyond identifying and deleting or moving just user and computer objects. The Groups Without Members report queries AD for all the groups within the selected domain(s), verifies their membership status, and locates all the empty groups (i.e., groups without any members) in a given domain. After generating the report, administrators can take appropriate clean up actions and delete them right from the reports window.

GPO cleanup

In most AD environments, there are outdated GPOs. Cleaning up such GPOs is crucial to unclutter your Active Directory and keep it more organized and secure. So, if you are wondering how to clean up your Active Directory GPOs effectively, then ManageEngine ADManager Plus is your go-to tool. It is loaded with the following GPO-related reports which have built-in options to clean up your GPOs right from the report.

The Disabled GPOs report provides a list of all GPOs in which both the user and computer configuration settings have been disabled. You can generate a list of group policy objects that aren't being used from the Unused GPOs report. Similarly, the Computer Settings Disabled GPOs and User Settings Disabled GPOs reports enable you to list GPOs with the computer settings disabled and the user settings disabled respectively.

Automate AD cleanup with ADManager Plus

ADManager Plus also takes things up a notch and lets you automate or semi-automate your AD cleanup operations. You can configure multiple automation policies as needed. The key benefit of AD automation is that you can select from any of the predefined automation categories along with the objects that have to be managed and also specify the desired execution time. For instance, you can configure an automation policy that lets you move all the inactive users in a domain to a separate OU once every 3 months, retain them there for 90 days, and then delete those accounts automatically.

Other extensive built-in Active Directory reports in ADManager Plus

FAQs

Follow these steps to find inactive users in AD using ADManager Plus.

Launch ADManager Plus and log in with appropriate credentials.
Go to the Reports tab and select Inactive Users under User Reports.
Select the desired domain or organizational unit (OU) to search.
Specify the preferred time duration for identifying inactive users.
Click on Generate to get a list of inactive users.

Follow these steps to find inactive computers in AD using ADManager Plus.

Launch ADManager Plus and log in with appropriate credentials.
Go to the Reports tab and select Inactive Computers under Computer Reports.
Select the desired domain or OU to search.
Set the criteria for inactivity based on parameters such as Last Logon Time or Password Last Set Time.
Specify the desired time period for inactive computers.
Click on Generate to retrieve a list of inactive computers based on the specified criteria.