I love these kinds of emails…
Using your oldcmp program for the first time. So, it was late, I was hungry and tired, and for some reason I typed ‘oldcmp……..-users -disable..’ with some other switches, and hit ‘enter’. And then I realized it once I hit enter that I was going to disable all users in our current domain with a password age greater than 30, which I ultimately wanted to do, but not at this time cause it wasnt during our ‘change management window’. Then, with my heart beating like crazy, I looked at the report and realized only 10 were changed and the default -safety 10 saved me! Thanks for implementing such a great idea, for us overworked admins who do stupid things like play with this stuff on a prod network when it is late and we are tired.
I’m sure you have saved a lot of people with all the safeties you put in there. Can you imagine all the angry mail you would get if the safeties where not in there. 🙂
Although you do say use at your own risk.
I love the safeties, that is why I put them in. You just never know when you might screw up. 🙂
I’ve gotten so used to running a command with the safety first, then adjusting the safety limit on the second run to accomplish what I was intending to do. At first it was annoying, but there already have been several times I’ve ganked up a filter clause and would have affected more objects than I intended.
Safety first!