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OLDCMP - puzzling observation

Discussion in 'Windows Security' started by JayDee, Oct 7, 2009.

  1. JayDee

    JayDee Guest

    For those of you familiar with this tool used to clean out old unused
    computers from an Active Directory:

    I used the following command to see all the computers in a particular
    OU and what the password age is. There are Windows 2000 and 2003
    servers, no workstations:

    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    >oldcmp -report -age 0 -b ou=servers,ou=it,dc=companyabc,dc=com -format csv -file oldcmp_servers.csv.txt<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    The results looked great for the most part, but there were some
    computers that did not return a password age at all! The field was
    blank. In some cases, the devices were windows servers that were
    pingable and responding and in other cases, they were not responding
    to a ping.

    Any idea why I would receive no value for the password age? I did
    receive "0000" for some devices, so I know it's not zero, it's
    actually nothing.

    thanks
    - JayDee
     
  2. Repost here instead: microsoft.public.windows.server.security

    JayDee wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > For those of you familiar with this tool used to clean out old unused
    > computers from an Active Directory:
    >
    > I used the following command to see all the computers in a particular
    > OU and what the password age is. There are Windows 2000 and 2003
    > servers, no workstations:
    >
    ><!--coloro:green--><span style="color:green <!--/coloro-->
    >> oldcmp -report -age 0 -b ou=servers,ou=it,dc=companyabc,dc=com -format
    >> csv
    >> -file oldcmp_servers.csv.txt<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
    >
    > The results looked great for the most part, but there were some
    > computers that did not return a password age at all! The field was
    > blank. In some cases, the devices were windows servers that were
    > pingable and responding and in other cases, they were not responding
    > to a ping.
    >
    > Any idea why I would receive no value for the password age? I did
    > receive "0000" for some devices, so I know it's not zero, it's
    > actually nothing.
    >
    > thanks
    > - JayDee <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
     

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