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We are currently using SharePoint Server 2003 with Services 2.0 and getting ready to migrate over to SharePoint Server 2007 with Services 3.0. I was going through some of our sites and trying to clean up the users that are no longer at our command, but noticed the information is still located in the "Uder Information" area. I was wondering if anyone knows of any way to clean this up entirely?? Any help is much appreciated. Thank  you in advance!

Have you tried removing them from the "Profile Database"? (Site settings > Manage profile database > find user and delete)

Hope this helps,

 - Dink

You can remove the users manually but there is a justifiable reason not remove them at all.  If you remove an individual from the "User Information" area in WSS and they had been the last person to edit or upload an item then those will have a blank user for tracking purposes.  To me the only time you take a user out of this list is if you were to have another user come into the company that shares the same username as an exited person.  In this case when you try and add the new user it won't let you anyways and you're forced to delete to fix this, but either way keeping people in that list shouldn't really hurt you unless you are using a custom list for assignments.  Let me know if this doesn't make sense.