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Adding user to group in AD with timeout
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19/09/2008 14:03:57
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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19/09/2008 13:13:38
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Administration & Security
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01348749
Message ID:
01349055
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>>>>Does anybody know if there is a way to add a user to a group in Active Directory, but have them time out of that group in a set amount of time? Ocassionally we have to give audiors access to some of our network shares and they aren't always removed from the group.
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>>>Found on the Web - no idea if it works or not: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/accexp/index.htm
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>>Hmmm... looks like that expires the user account itself. I only want to get rid of the user's inclusion in a group.
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>OK, I misunderstood what you wanted to do.
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>Googling ["active directory" "remove user from group"] brings up some code to remove a user from a group. Maybe you could run this as a one-time-only Scheduled Task, at a date/time of your choosing.

Eh, I was hoping to find something I could set in AD. Seems to me that this could be useful functionality.

I can just have the network admin set himself an outlook reminder to do this manually.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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