Ken
Thu Mar 13 14:16:04 PDT 2008
With Microsoft's "Active Directory Users and Computers" tool you can do a
search on logon name (sAMAccountName).
Right-click on the domain name in the left pane and click "Find..." in the
flyout menu.
Make sure the "Find:" field is set to "Users, Contacts, and Groups" and the
"In:" field is configured to search your entire domain.
Go to the Advanced Tab
On the "Field" dropdown choose user, then "Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000)"
Set the "Condition:" field to the desired expression
For the logon name that you wish to search for, put the logon name in the
"Value:" field.
Click the "Add" button
Click the "Find Now" button.
The results window will show you the users found. The icon will indicate if
the user is enabled or disabled. You can right-click on the user to manage
it.
You can also use third-party tools to make this process a little easier.
Many DSRAZOR customers build a search similar to this right into their user
creation applets so it prompts them to make a search before creating a user.
This makes it automatically a part of the user creation process.
--
Ken Aldrich
DSRAZOR for Windows
Visual Click Software, Inc.
www.visualclick.com
"Penny" <Penny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:80D2F809-38A3-47B7-A6EE-2425266C5790@microsoft.com...
> I'm running into issues where I'm trying to create a new user and the
> login
> id already exists.
>
> I haven't been at this company very long and maybe there was a good reason
> why they adopted the idea of making the user login id to be their
> initials,
> but it's very cumbersome.
>
> Is there any way to query active directory by the login ID to be able to
> determine who is using that login and to delete the user if it's disabled?
>