Delete Local Users or Groups

This feature is available for Windows computers only.

Privilege Manager’s Local Security features include provisioning and managing local users and/or groups. The Local Security Delete Command, available as a scheduled job, can be used to delete local users and/or groups.

We strongly recommend running this job against one test machine before deploying it to an entire environment.

1. In the computer group with the local users or groups to be deleted, select Scheduled Jobs.
2. Click Create Scheduled Job in the top right and name the policy.

3. Make the following updates to the job:

   1. In the Job Settings section of the form, specify Local Security Delete Command in the Command field.
   2. In the User Names and Group Names fields, customize the Local Users and Groups to delete.
   3. At the bottom of the task item, there is a switch to also delete the user’s folders from the machine(s). There are also schedules or triggers which can be added to run this task.
      This item will create a Scheduled Task on the endpoint(s) which will run on the Job Schedules assigned in Privilege Manager. This task will find the local user(s) by name, determine if they have an active session, log out the user if there is an active session, delete the user account, and delete the user’s User folders, if that additional step is enabled on the Policy. The task will also find the local group(s) by name and delete use local groups.
4. Click Create.