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Need a way to automatically identify and disable accounts after 90 days of inactivity. The environment is Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory is not used. I find scripts to doing this when AD is used but nothing otherwise.

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  • Do you simply mean local/builtin user accounts on the server?
    – Univ426
    Jun 13, 2012 at 21:46
  • how many servers?
    – tony roth
    Jun 13, 2012 at 22:11
  • how about looking at the profile file ntuser.dat check the date on it. I think that may be the only way.
    – tony roth
    Jun 13, 2012 at 22:16
  • @tonyroth users can still authenticate (shares/etc) without touching their ntuser.dat file.
    – Hyppy
    Jun 13, 2012 at 22:17
  • yep if they are not loggin in locally you are correct.
    – tony roth
    Jun 13, 2012 at 22:18

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There is no built-in mechanism to do this with local accounts.

If I wanted to do something like this without using AD, I would build some kind of script to check for the user popping up in the security event log in the last 90 days.

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There is a powershell module in the technet repository for local user mgmt. I have not worked with it, but it appears to do what you need. It can be found here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Local-Account-Management-a777191b.
This snippet might get you started:

get-localuser mypc\greg |select name,lastlogin  

Name                LastLogin                                                
----                ---------                                                
Greg                6/13/2012 6:35:56 PM

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