Delete User in SharePoint

[CL]

What's the correct procedure to delete a user account? I'm using SharePoint
2007 with Win2003 Active Directory.

[v-wy...@prcvap.microsoft.com]

Hello CL,

According to your description, you need to remove a user from MOSS, correct?
If this is the case, you may refer to the following article.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101190221033.aspx#1
[Remove users and groups from site access]

Hope this helps,
best regards,

Wen Yuan
Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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[v-wy...@prcvap.microsoft.com]

Hello CL,

This is Wen Yuan again. Do you face any further issue so far?
If there is anything else we can help with, just feel free to update here again.
We are glad to assist you.

Have a great day,
Best regards,

[CL]

Dear Wen Yuan,

Thanks for your reply, let me try to describe my scenario in more detail.

When we have a new user, I will create the user in AD and then sync it to
the SharePoint profiles.

So, when the user is required to be removed. I delete the user in AD, then
sync it to SharePoint profiles.

Then, I go to Document Library and see the files uploaded by that user. User
name still appears next the file. Then I click the user name, the user
profile still appear. But there is a button called "Delete this user from
site collection".

So, I click that button to delete the user from site collection. After that,
I go back to Document Library, and click the user name. An error message
"User not found" is shown. It is good!

However, there is still a problem. If I go to a Publishing site that was
created by the user, try to open the Page Settings. The error message "User
not found" is shown. That's really a problem, because I cannot change the
Page Settings anymore as the creator user was deleted.

That's why, I was asking you, what're the correct steps to delete a user.
Did I make anything wrong?

[v-wy...@prcvap.microsoft.com]

Hello CL,
Thanks for your reply.

Base on my research, I’m afraid to say this behavior is by design. Website couldn’t work after you removed Creator User Account. Either, there is no way to change Site Creator User.

Your step is correct. We have to remove user account from Sharepoint database after you deleted it from AD. For sites which created by removed user. You may consider Backup&Restore it. Thereby, it can be created by another user account.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262412.aspx
[Administering backup and recovery for Office SharePoint Server 2007]

Hope this helps,
Best regards,
Wen Yuan

[salaudee...@gmail.com]

Well, there are multiple ways to Delete Users from SharePoint Site Collection:

1. You can delete users using SharePoint Web Interface
2. Delete users from SharePoint site using PowerShell (Bulk Delete also possible)
3. Remove users from SharePoint programmatically using C#

Find all possible ways at: http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2013/07/delete-users-from-site-collection-using-powershell.html#ixzz2aXghqIQb