Audit My Documents Size on Local machines to plan for Folder Redirecttion

Hi All

We are planning to redirect our users My Documents to a file server, however prior to doing this i would like to know how much data we are going to end up with, is there a script that can go out to each PC and report back the size of the my documents folder, 95% of our estate is Windows 7 so mostly concerned with this O/S,

Thanks

Active DirectoryWindows Server 2008Powershell

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ncomper

8/22/2022 - Mon

merowinger

5/8/2014

Check out this article. The guy has the same question.
http://forums.petri.com/showthread.php?t=43178

footech

5/8/2014

I haven't tested except on a local machine, but should work.
Using PS Remoting...

$computers = Get-Content computerlist.txt
$scriptblock = {
    Get-ChildItem c:\users | Get-ChildItem -filter "documents" |
     Get-ChildItem -Recurse -force -ea SilentlyContinue |
     Where { !($_.PsIsContainer) } |
     Select -expand length |
     Measure-Object -Sum |
     Select sum
}
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computers -ScriptBlock $scriptblock | Export-CSV DocumentsSize.csv -notype

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ncomper

5/8/2014

ASKER

Thanks, does anything need to be enabled on the remote client machine, it runs on mine OK but not remote PC's (firewall etc is off)

Also is it possible to get the path in export so we know the user?

Thanks

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