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delete user account and associated redirect folders

We have an environment with around 2000 users (GPO with desktop and my docs redirected to the server) and every year we have a few hundred users leaving. Is there a way we can delete the user accounts and associated redirected folders at once?

Thanks in advance

Benjamin Voglar

you need a Powershell script that delete a user and then take ownership, set permissions and delete folders.

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/58010-how-to-ps-script-take-ownership-set-permissions-and-delete-folders-for-stale-user-folders-created-by-folder-redirection-gpo

jct_777

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Thanks Benjamin. Not what I was looking for.

Lionel MM

So do you want to be able to have script, enter a username, take ownership of those files, and then delete them? And then also have them deleted from AD? What about shares associated with users?

jct_777

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Yes Lionelmm. No shares associated with users

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jct_777

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Hi Lionelmm,

Looks good. I'd rather put it into a text file for the script to read when it run.

Thanks

Lionel MM

OK so only missing piece is how, what variable do we need to know to be able to know which folders to delete, that is associated with each user's name. In other words what is the variable for Y:\Redirected\Folder2Delete I assume it is related to their username somehow so is it Y:\Redirected\%username%?

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Lionel MM

Glad to have helped--did it work as you wanted it to?