How to delete a windows user?

bluegnu · Post by **bluegnu** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:50 am

Is it possible to create a macro to delete a specific windows user? The problem as I see it is that I can open computer manager and get to the Users, but deleting the correct user doesn't seem possible.

Any ideas?

pgriffin · Post by **pgriffin** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:33 pm

There probably is some inventive way to go through the Windows interface to get this done, but my first attempt would be to visit a VBScript forum and look for code to delete a user. You might sign up at http://www.visualbasicscript.com and post the question there.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:30 pm

What version of Windows Operating System are you usiing?

I believe that you can use NET command with XP/2K and higher.
Untested syntax is something like this:
NET USER username /DELETE /DOMAIN

You will need to have the correct permissions to delete a user.

JRL · Post by **JRL** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:46 pm

Another possibility:
If you're deleting users from a 2003 server you might be able to use the command line tool dsrm.

From microsoft:

Dsrm

Deletes an object of a specific type or any general object from the directory.
Syntax

dsrm ObjectDN ... [-subtree [-exclude]] [-noprompt] [{-s Server | -d Domain}] [-u UserName] [-p {Password | *}][-c][-q][{-uc | -uco | -uci}]