Hi all,
I did a little search here, and most result yeild roaming profiles.
Here is what we have and what I want to do. Our students have individual logins, and we have a couple group logins. We went from trying mandatory profiles and such on some accounts. Now, systems that were not imaged often keep the records of a mandatory profile and its setup, and since the profile no longer exist their desktops are empty.
We have all desktop shortcuts located in the All Users folder. So, what I need to do is clear the Documents and Settings of all the account except the Default (which is hidden so hopefully that won't be an issue) and All Users. That way windows had to re-make the desktop and setting based on those accounts.
I am not worried about the users settings, the kids are elementary level so they will not be making any important setting changes. My only concern are things like Office which prompt them for user details.
I would hopefully like a solution that could be run on a monthly, weekly, or daily process...depending on need. I would idealy like a GUI script that a lab teacher could use, because I have tried explaining to them to just delete the users folder on the system with problem...but that doesn't sink in...and I am tired of chasing behind the kids with problems and trying to delete the right folder.
Could any make some solution suggestions, or perhaps what specific files I could delete (I guess if the desktop is the issue I could just remove the "desktop" folders content, but what prevents it from pulling from "All User/Desktop"?)
I hope I am clear enough, FYI its one particular account that had a mandatory profile at one point, I check the ntuser file and it is a .dat, not a .man ....so not sure why it is not loading the All Users/Desktop folder as it not a mandatory profile anymore.
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h4nym,
I would do that but it would require each kid loginto the systems, the kids have free choice of computers when a lab teacher is not there. So computers have 50 user folders while others have 5. Plus it is a 1 time deal, I just want to clear it every so often (30,60,90 days or so).
SO I was hopefull there an easy way to do it with a script or something.
Okey dokey - here's a script - create a deletefolders.vbs file and copy the following text into it. Amend the rootfolder line as necessary and simply double-click it to run it...you can also put this into a logoff
script, or call it from a scheduled task.
'*************************
' Code starts here
'*************************
'*************************
' Purpose: This script deletes all subfolders below a specified root folder except those called
'Default User, All Users and those ending in 'ervice' - to cover LocalService and NetWorkService
'*************************
' Licence: Use, copy, distribute, enjoy at will
'*************************
' Author: Hany Mustapha - ElectronicWorkplace.com
'*************************
' Warranty: Use at our own risk. Absolutely no warranty expressed or implied that this code
' is fit for any purpose whatsoever. No liability will be accepted for any loss, absolute or
' consequential. Your use of this code is expressly subject to this disclaimer.
Dim FSO, rootFolder, fsFolder, folderToDelete
set FSO=wscript.CreateObject("
rootFolder="c:\Data\Test"
Set FSfolder = FSO.GetFolder(rootFolder)
For Each subfolder In FSfolder.SubFolders
if subfolder.name <> "Default User" and subfolder.name <> "All Users" and right(subfolder.name,6) <> "ervice" then
folderToDelete = rootfolder & "\" & subfolder.name
fso.deletefolder folderToDelete, true
end if
Next 'subfolder
Set FSfolder = Nothing
'*************************
' Code ends here
'*************************
Good luck
H
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by: h4nymPosted on 2006-03-06 at 06:57:38ID: 16114765
How's about something like
Deltree c:\documents and settings\%username%
in a logoff script?
H