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This is just a follow up to the message that I posted (see below) concerning the mass-removal of accounts from a system that authenticates using Windows NT. My organization was very successful in first expiring, then deactivating, deleting the user accounts from NT User Manger, and lastly, deleting the mailboxes for these accounts using the IMail Find Orphan feature. To be sure, the usernames of these removed accounts no longer show up in the IMail Administrator GUI. However, and back to my primary query concerning the Windows registry, it seems that the instances of the removed user accounts in the registry are NOT removed with the Find Orphan | Remove All tool. Registry Location, in our case, [HKLM|SOFTWARE|Ipswitch|IMail|Domains|mail2.udallas.edu|Users] (1) I did report this issue to Ipswitch. (2) Ipswitch tech support did acknowledge the matter and suggested that each registry entry be removed either manually or by a batch .reg file if needed. (3) However, Ipswitch tech support emphasized the fact that, should a new user account be created with the same name of a previous account, its settings would overwrite those of the �orphaned� registry key. Question 1: Does anyone know what type of performance impact the Imail Server�s services face when dealing with the �orphaned� [HKLM|SOFTWARE|Ipswitch|IMail|Domains|mail2.udallas.edu|Users] Windows registry entries? Should I remove these entries from the Windows registry? Note: I�ve since removed a total of 3,000 accounts using NT and then IMail Find Orphans. Question 2: Since the removed accounts are still in the [HKLM|SOFTWARE|Ipswitch|IMail|Domains|mail2.udallas.edu|Users] registry, what would happen if I utilized the mailall command line feature? Thanks, as always! Sean >>>Previous Post>>> We have Imail authenticating users with an NT Database. I am getting ready to remove about 1,500 accounts from the NT system (students that have since moved on in life) which will result in 1,500 orphaned mailboxes on the Imail server. Question: Once the accounts are removed from NT, is it enough to just use Find Orphans in Imail and delete what is found? I know this seems like a simple question but what I�m really interested in is if there is some sort of strange thing going on in the Windows Registry that I need to be aware before taking such an action. Is the Find Orphans tool as simple as it seems? Thanks! Sean Malone University of Dallas >>>End Previous Post>>> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
