Hi, I'm trying to find out what is the best way to remove a user from MOSS 2007? What happens if I go into Site Admin and just delete the profile, does this remove the person from Search? Will this interfere with any places in the site where their name is evident in a people look up. If you can provide me with any suggestions I would be grateful. Thanks.

Ok - I couldn't find a straight answer from anyone regarding this so thought I should answer my own question in case someone else needs help with this. There is no way to disablea users profile in MOSS. In my situation, I'm trying to remove the person from people search and from people look up. To do this, I have to delete the user profile in central administration. You can reinstate the user later if needed provided the user still exists on Active Directory. However any custom profile property information in the My Site is lost at the time of deleting and can not be reinstated. Deleting a user profile does not block the user from being able to access sites where he/she is a member. You need to disable the user in Active Directory and then the user can no longer access the site. If you disable a user in Active Directory the equivalent user profile in Sharepoint still remains active. If you delete a user account in Active Directory, the equivalent user profile in sharepoint is deleted.

Hi Alana,Thanks for the valuable information. I have a query here. We have deleted a user profile from AD. User had alerts created in sharepoint application. Although we have deleted user profile from the system but sharepoint is still sending emails to that id? Is it a bug or that is how it works or Am I doing anything wrong?Thanks a lot,Sumit

Hi Sumit, You raise a really good point which I haven't considered. Having a look around, from what I can gather, when you delete a user, you have to manually delete their alerts in each site... seems a bit painful. Read the section on configuring and managing alerts http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stsf13.mspx?mfr=true I'm wondering if it's possible to pull out a report that tells you who has set up alerts and where?? - There's got to be an easier way?? I'll keep looking and if I come acrossan easier process, I'll let you know.

Hey Sumit, Seems there is no easier way - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2070614&SiteID=1 :-(

I'm not sure, but I think you should be able to run an SQL Query across your content database to remove all alerts associated to a user. The only problem is I'm not sure which table might contain the alert records so I can't give you the query. Anyone else?

Hi all, continuing with this post, my query is related with the documents of this user that he have uploaded to sharepoint. What happens with these documents¿? Obviously I have to "copy/save/change the ownership of the documents" before remove Active Directory user account and sharepoint profile. Thanks in advance.