Deleting user accounts

The following code sample deletes a user account.

ADSI

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi")

# Connect to the Adaxes service
$ns = New-Object("Softerra.Adaxes.Adsi.AdmNamespace")
$service = $ns.GetServiceDirectly("localhost")

# Bind to the user
$userDN = "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com"
$user = $service.OpenObject("Adaxes://$userDN", $null, $null, 0)

# Delete user
$user.DeleteObject("ADM_DELETEOBJECTFLAGS_AUTO")

PowerShell

Import-Module Adaxes

$identity = "jsmith" # sAMAccountName
# $identity = "CN=John Smith,CN=Users,DC=domain,DC=com"  # DN
# $identity = "{EB5FEB21-E648-42AD-B86C-89D3C6807953}" # GUID
# $identity = "S-1-5-21-573937-2149998-410785" # SID

Remove-AdmUser -Identity $identity -Server "domain.com" `
    -AdaxesService localhost -Confirm:$false

Deleting user accounts

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