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Delete Profiles older than 14 days Script

Hi Guys,

I have written a script to delete profiles from machines and servers, however this is for users, I need help to write a script that will delete profiles that is older than 30 days with some exceptions, please can someone help me edit the script I have already written, thank you in advance:

$users=@("c.horsfield")

$PServers=@("CI-RDS01","CI-RDS02","CI-RDS03")

foreach ($server in $PServers)

{





        foreach ($user in $users)

               
               {

               try 
                       { 


                       (Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like "c:\users\$user"}).Delete()      
                       

                               Write-Host "$user deleted successfully on $server" 
                       }
                       
                       
               catch

                       {

                               Write-Host "Error For $username from $Server - Error $($_.Exception.Message)"


                       }

               }


}

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Kanti Prasad

Hi

Have a look at the below to delete profiles

https://mstoneblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/user-profile-cleaning-script-for-windows-7/

Mauro Cazabonnet

$users=@("c.horsfield")

$PServers=@("CI-RDS01","CI-RDS02","CI-RDS03")

$currentDate=(GET-DATE)

foreach ($server in $PServers)
{
    foreach ($user in $users)
        {
             try 
             { 
                 $userProfile = New-Object System.Object
                 $userProfile = Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like "c:\users\$user"}
                 $profileFolder = Get-Item $userProfile.LocalPath
                 $profileDate = $profileFolder.CreationTime
                 $datediff = NEW-TIMESPAN –Start $profileDate –End $currentDate
       
                 if ($datediff.days -gt 30)
                 {
                  (Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like $userProfile.LocalPath}).Delete()      
                   Write-Host "$user deleted successfully on $server" 
                 }
              }
              catch
              {
                  Write-Host "Error For $user from $server - Error $($_.Exception.Message)"
              }
        }
}

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Kelly Garcia

ASKER

how do I do this for all users instead of the one user?

thank you soo much!

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Kelly Garcia

ASKER

HI,

THank you for the wonderful script, however it fails at

$profileFolder = Get-Item $userProfile.LocalPath

please help!

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

it says it deleted the profile but when i check its still there??

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

i want to do it by

LastAccessTime
LastAccessTimeUtc
LastWriteTime
LastWriteTimeUtc

instead of creationtime, that way I would only be deleting the profiles that are not used. which is the best to use out of hte four?

Mauro Cazabonnet

I'll review and update shortly
M

Mauro Cazabonnet

LastAccessTime is the way to go

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

thank you, its a fantastic script!

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

will this delete the publilc and the default folders also?

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

I get these error messsages when attempting on a remote machine:

Error For from c10068 - Error Cannot bind parameter 'Start' to the target. Exception setting "Start": "Object reference
not set to an instance of an object."

Mauro Cazabonnet

It will try to remove everything under C:\Users
We can have exclusions if need

$PServers=@("CI-RDS01","CI-RDS02","CI-RDS03")
$currentDate=(GET-DATE)

foreach ($server in $PServers)
{
    $RootPath = "\\$server\c$\Users"
    If ($RootPath -ne $null)
    {
        $Folders = dir $RootPath | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} 
    }
    
    foreach ($user in $Folders)
    {
        try 
        { 
            $profilePath = $RootPath + "\" + $user
            $profileFolder = Get-Item $profilePath
            $profileDate = $profileFolder.LastAccessTime
            $datediff = NEW-TIMESPAN –Start $profileDate.Date –End $currentDate
                                            
            if ($datediff.days -gt 30)
            {
                if (Test-Path $profilePath)
			    {
				    $command = "& cmd.exe /c rmdir /S /Q '$profilePath' 2>&1"
                    $console_output_array = Invoke-Expression $command
			    }
                if ($console_output_array -ne $null)
			    {
				    $console_output_string = [string]::join("`r",$console_output_array)
				    foreach ($error in $console_output_string)
				    {          
                        Throw $error
					}	
				}
                else { Write-Host "$profilePath deleted successfully on $server" }
            }
        }  
        catch
        {
            Write-Host "Error For $profilePath from $Server - Error $($_.Exception.Message)"
        }
    }
}

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Mauro Cazabonnet

I changed the coding for binding to remote machines

Kelly Garcia

ASKER

i've did it this way, and it worked on the remote machine

$PServers=@("c10068")

$currentDate=(GET-DATE)

foreach ($server in $PServers)
{
    $RootPath = "\\$server\c$\Users"
    If ($RootPath -ne $null)
    {
        $Folders = dir $RootPath | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} 
    }
    
    foreach ($user in $Folders)
        {
             try 
             { 
                 $userProfile = New-Object System.Object
                 $userProfile = Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like "c:\users\$user"}
                 if ($userProfile.LocalPath -ne $null)
                 {
                    $profileFolder = Get-Item \\$server\c$\users\$user
                    $profileDate = $profileFolder.LastAccessTime
                    $datediff = NEW-TIMESPAN –Start $profileDate –End $currentDate
       
                    if ($datediff.days -gt 14)
                    {
                        (Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like $userProfile.LocalPath}).Delete()      
                        Write-Host "$user deleted successfully on $server" 
                    }
                 }
              }
              catch
              {
                  Write-Host "Error For $username from $Server - Error $($_.Exception.Message)"
              }
        }
}

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i want to add exceptions to the script, for example there is a folder profile called defaultapppool and i do not want this deleted. how do i do this?

Mauro Cazabonnet

I'll post code with exclusion support

Mauro Cazabonnet

Added exclusion code, you can update the exclusion array as needed

$PServers=@("c10068")
$currentDate=(GET-DATE)
$ExcludeProfiles = "Profile1","defaultapppool","Profile2"

#Hash Tables
    $HashExcludeProfiles = $null
#endregion

#Populate BaseProfiles Hash Table

function ProfileExclusions
{
	$script:HashExcludeProfiles = @{}
	foreach ($profile in $ExcludeProfiles)
	{
		if (!($script:HashExcludeProfiles.ContainsKey($profile)))
		{
			$script:HashExcludeProfiles.Add($profile,1)
		}
	}
}

function RemoveProfiles
{
    foreach ($server in $PServers)
    {
        $RootPath = "\\$server\c$\Users"
        If ($RootPath -ne $null)
        {
            $Folders = dir $RootPath | where {$_.psiscontainer -eq $true} 
        }
    
        foreach ($user in $Folders)
        {
            try 
            { 
                $currprofile = $user.Name.trim()
                if (!($script:HashExcludeProfiles.ContainsKey($currprofile)))
                {
                    $userProfile = New-Object System.Object
                    $userProfile = Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like "c:\users\$user"}
                    if ($userProfile.LocalPath -ne $null)
                    {
                        $profileFolder = Get-Item \\$server\c$\users\$user
                        $profileDate = $profileFolder.LastAccessTime
                        $datediff = NEW-TIMESPAN –Start $profileDate –End $currentDate
       
                        if ($datediff.days -gt 14)
                        {
                            #(Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -Computername $server | Where {$_.LocalPath -like $userProfile.LocalPath}).Delete()      
                            Write-Host "$user deleted successfully on $server" 
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch
            {
                Write-Host "Error For $username from $Server - Error $($_.Exception.Message)"
            }
        }
    }
}

#Call functions
ProfileExclusions
RemoveProfiles

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