What is the purpose of GitHub Enterprise's 'dormant user' feature?
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GHES licenses cost money per seat. The dormant user report tells you who hasn't actually touched the system in 90+ days — giving admins the info to potentially suspend or remove them and reclaim expensive license seats.
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Full Explanation
In GitHub Enterprise Server, dormant users are accounts that have not performed any of the following actions in the past 90 days: logged into GitHub, performed Git operations, opened/commented on issues or PRs, starred/followed/watched repositories. The dormant user report in the GHES site admin dashboard helps administrators identify license seats that may not be actively used. Administrators can then suspend dormant accounts to reclaim licenses. This is purely an identification/reporting tool — GitHub does NOT automatically delete or suspend dormant users. Suspension must be manually performed by an admin. This is critical for license cost management in large enterprises.