Steve, Thanks for the alternate view. Unfortunately, our business policy is not that simple. We basically allow for lifetime email as long as the account is active. Do you simply delete the account when a student becomes inactive? What determines enrollment at your school? (This is a problem in many other areas of the butsiness - did a student leave or is he just not taking classes)
I would still like to understand what a "remote NTLM Authentication" is. Ken -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Rochford Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp- Is it possible to approach this from another way? Do you have any access to enrolled student data? If so, then it might be easier to delete students who are no longer enrolled rather than try and work out those who haven't logged on. I have a script that runs at regular intervals and pulls a listing of all student accounts in the AD (and before someone starts worrying, yes, I do use paging :-)) For each account I then run the function below which returns true if the student is still enrolled and false if not. The web page it calls is on a "public" server and it provides very basic info about the student or "N/A" if they're not enrolled. You obviously need someone in your student records section to provide you with such a web page but it shouldn't be a big job for them to do and it then means you can clear accounts for students who are regularly using the system but shouldn't be! (We have an occasional problem with students who try to use the college as a free "internet caf�"!) Steve function CheckStudent(id) Set oXML = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP") oXML.Open "GET", "http://server.cnwl.ac.uk/checkstatus.asp?id="; & id, False oXML.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" oXML.Send if oXML.responseText="N/A" then CheckStudent=false else CheckStudent=true end if Set oXML = nothing end function > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Garello, Kenneth > Sent: 01 June 2005 14:05 > To: [email protected] > Cc: Toro, Pedro; Poueriet, Jorge > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] lastlogontimestamp- > > David, > > After researching, I was unable to decipher what a "remote > NTLM Authentication" is. Can you give me an example of this? > I am trying to come up with an effective account deletion > policy in a school with high turnover. > > > Thanks, > > Ken List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
