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Best way to delete old TS profiles on \\server\share

Hello all,

2003 sp1 Terminal Servers and DC's.

I have a share set aside for ts profiles. It's more or less full. There are a number of older profiles I would like to remove. I understand that these profiles are created with only the user as owner and no other access. I can, one-by-one, take ownership and delete them..but that's really tedious. Does anyone have a good way to delete a bunch (but not all) ts profiles en masse? I've got Enterprise Admin Creds.

I set the GPO Computer Config -> Administrative Templates -> System -> User Profiles -> Add Adminstrators security group to roaming user profiles

to enable. I then logged onto the TS with a fresh user...logged off and verified the new profile was copied to the share. I still lacked access. My suspicion is that roaming is not equal to TS roaming...

thanks,

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Pete Long

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Hi Pete,

takeown did the trick.

Here's what I'm doing: takeown /R /d y /F whateverthefoldernameis

This isn't enough by itself...you still need to use cacls for a few stubborn files:

echo y| cacls whateverthefoldernameis /t /g username:f

Now I'm looking to put this together into a .vbs script and pass a csv to the. This is ambitious as I'm a vbs noob.

Any pointers would be appreciated