What Defines an AD Object as "Inactive"

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Published on 2010-02-26T15:24:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 17:13 UTC
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I am going to be using some DSQUERY/DSMOVE scripts to clean up my AD Domin. One option is to move inactive objects to a OU that has restrictive GPOs applied to it.

Something like:

DSQUERY computer -inactive 10 | DSMOVE -newparent <distinguished name of target OU>

My question is what value defines an object, both user and computer, as "inactive" for a period of time? Is it the last time a computer was logged on to for computer accounts, and for users is it the last time that the user account logged on to a computer?

But what if, say for example, I had a web server that wasn't rebooted and or logged into for a couple of months but remain powered on and functioning as normal, would it be defined as "inactive" where as technically it's still serving web pages and so on?

Thanks for the help!

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