Dead Account Detection

Dead Account Detection (DAD) displays all accounts found within Microsoft® SharePoint® that do not exist within Active Directory (AD) within the chosen scope in the treeview.

To use the Dead Account Detection command, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to the DeliverPoint dashboard and using the View Ribbon tab, select either the Farm Centric or Account Centric.
   
   
2. In the tree view, select those nodes, also known as SharePoint objects, to be included in the scope, for example, one or more site collections. You can only use the Dead Account commands when you select Server Farm, Web Applications, managed paths or site collections. It can not be used with other SharePoint objects, such as sites or accounts. The properties of the node selected are displayed in the dashboard’s Properties pane.
   
   
3. On the Commands Ribbon tab, click Dead Accounts in the Account Management group.
   
   
   
   The Dead Account Detection page is displayed in the dashboard results pane. The nodes included in the scope are display to the right of the page title.
   
   A report is displayed in the results pane of the DeliverPoint dashboard. When a user does not exist in AD, then a line is displayed for each site collection where the user has access, so you may see the same account multiple times in multiple site collections.
   
   
   

*Note: Disabled or locked accounts do not appear in the report.

4. Using the Report Ribbon tab either:
   
   

• Click Export to Spreadsheet.
  
  A File Download dialog box opens, click Open to open the report in Microsoft® Excel, or click Save to save the xls file. The xls file name is of the format, Dead_Accounts_yyyymmdd.xls.
  
  
• Select the check box to the left of one or more users, and then on the Report Ribbon tab, click Delete Accounts.
  
  The Operation: Delete Accounts page is displayed in the results pane.
  
  
  • Verify the information and then click OK.
    
    The Operation screen is displayed stating that the DeliverPoint jobs have been created. This page does not mean that the Delete Accounts DeliverPoint command is complete – this page is a confirmation that a DeliverPoint Run Now job has been created. The Delete Accounts command will not be processed until the DeliverPoint job is completed. DeliverPoint executes the job according to the timing of the Transaction Type selected.
    
    
  • Click Job Status to display the DeliverPoint Job Status and History page, which you can use to monitor the Delete Account DeliverPoint job.

*Note: You can display the DeliverPoint Job Status and History page from the View Ribbon tab on the DeliverPoint dashboard.