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You may be able to correlate that (#3) with tracking log
data. In Exchange 5.5 you can query the store to see if it's last logon
was done via the same account that is in the assoc-nt-account field, but as Joe
points out there's no level of accuracy to see. You are way better off
going after the user's NT/AD account for last usage, and correlate that with the
messages sent by that mailbox.
The logic is something like: if the user hasn't logged into
the network in >3months AND no mail has been sent by that mailbox = match and
delete as a dead account. If the user has logged in in <3 months AND
has sent something from the mailbox, then no match and leave alone. If the
user has not logged in >3months, but something has been sent from the
mailbox, you have someone else using the mailbox and need to investigate.
If they have logged in <3months but no messages sent, then again, you need to
investigate why that is.
promodag is a great reporting tool to help with Exchange
reporting. www.promodag.com
Hmmm...
You would hope you could query the store and get this info,
BUT, even if someone else looks at your calendar or I think if the system needs
to look at the mailbox for some reason the store will have last logon updated to
reflect that so you can't use the last logon time on the store for anything
authoritative. This means everything falls on the shoulders of AD and you have
the same normal question, how do I find unused accounts.
The answer to that is a couple:
1. Set up a password expiration policy and pop anyone who
exceeds it by some value of X that you define.
2. Query every DC for last logon for every user and
generate a list that way, if you have more than a few DCs or many users at all
this really falls down quick.
3. With K3 in domain functional mode you have
lastlogontimestamp which is nice.
However even with all three of those you don't really know
if they are touching their mailbox, they could just be logging onto their
account.
joe
Hello Folks,
I was wondering, if its possible to Query, identify &
delete the mail boxes which are not in use for more than 3 months &
email id which have never been accessed after its
creation.
Exchange Server 5.5 SP3-BDC, Windows 2000 Domain
Controller.
Can
any one suggest me some scripts or tweaks to achieve this.
Thanks for your time!
Cheers,
Athif
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