| Author | Messages | |
Martin_Hugo
Posts:26
 | | 02/11/2011 10:16 PM |
| Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| mpietrzak
Posts:28
| | 02/11/2011 10:21 PM |
| I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff
at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are
running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives
are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way
to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work
on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older
than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student
accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on
our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a
machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| Martin_Hugo
Posts:26
| | 02/11/2011 10:37 PM |
| Hi Michael,
For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| mpietrzak
Posts:28
| | 02/11/2011 10:37 PM |
| Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
Thanks Marty!
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Michael,
For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the
profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to
concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff
at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are
running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives
are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way
to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work
on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older
than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student
accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on
our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a
machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| dmarelia
Posts:441
| | 02/11/2011 11:46 PM |
| One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you couldn't fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten much better in Win7 but still not 100%.
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
Thanks Marty!
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Michael,
For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| Martin_Hugo
Posts:26
| | 02/11/2011 11:54 PM |
| Hi Darren,
Didn't know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an answer?
Thanks.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you couldn't fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten much better in Win7 but still not 100%.
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
Thanks Marty!
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Michael,
For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| dmarelia
Posts:441
| | 02/12/2011 12:58 AM |
| Martin-
Unfortunately, there's no granularity in that policy to discriminate by group. The only way you could do that is by adding some logic in a script or scheduled task. I didn't realize that delprof.exe doesn't run on Win 7, but I will take a look into this if I get some time.
Darren
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:37 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Darren,
Didn't know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an answer?
Thanks.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you couldn't fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten much better in Win7 but still not 100%.
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
Thanks Marty!
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Michael,
For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| acjuelich
Posts:147
| | 02/12/2011 1:07 AM |
| You'd probably have to write a VBScript to delete all Local Profiles and set it as a Scheduled Task and then use Item-Level Targeting to set it to run on certain machines or certain OUs. We are in a K12 District as well and have our Staff Machines in different OU's than the Student Machines, so you could do it that way. ScriptingGuys may have some scripts to remove profiles or delete folders based on some logic (excluding the default profiles, all users, etc.)
Otherwise you could try moving towards Roaming Profiles and make the student ones Mandatory and thus, static.
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:42 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Martin-
Unfortunately, there's no granularity in that policy to discriminate by group. The only way you could do that is by adding some logic in a script or scheduled task. I didn't realize that delprof.exe doesn't run on Win 7, but I will take a look into this if I get some time.
Darren
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:37 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Darren,
Didn't know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an answer?
Thanks.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you couldn't fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten much better in Win7 but still not 100%.
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
Thanks Marty!
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hi Michael,
For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
Marty
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
Michael
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
Hello,
We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine object?
Thanks very much.
Marty
| | | |
| hboogz
Posts:21
| | 02/12/2011 1:25 AM |
| I would love if someone could share the syntax on how to have Delprof
use a list from excel.
On Friday, February 11, 2011, Adam C Juelich
<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You’d probably have to write a VBScript to delete all Local Profiles and set it as a Scheduled Task and then use Item-Level Targeting to set it to run on certain machines or certain OUs. We are in a K12 District as well and have our Staff Machines in different OU’s than the Student Machines, so you could do it that way. ScriptingGuys may have some scripts to remove profiles or delete folders based on some logic (excluding the default profiles, all users, etc.) Otherwise you could try moving towards Roaming Profiles and make the student ones Mandatory and thus, static. From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:42 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles Martin-Unfortunately, there’s no granularity in that policy to discriminate by group. The only way you could do that is by adding some logic in a script or scheduled task. I didn’t realize that delprof.exe doesn’t run on Win 7, but I will take a look into this if I get some time. Darren From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:37 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles Hi Darren, Didn’t know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an answer? Thanks. Marty From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you couldn’t fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten much better in Win7 but still not 100%. From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now. Thanks Marty! Michael From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
> To: '
| | | |
| gustin
Posts:4
| | 02/12/2011 1:31 AM |
| We did a proof of concept for this in Powershell about a year ago.
Just browsing poshcode there seems to be some examples that look
similar to what we did. You might want to look at this one for
example:
http://poshcode.org/2477
We scheduled a task that ran the script that removed profiles.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Adam C Juelich
<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You’d probably have to write a VBScript to delete all Local Profiles and set
> it as a Scheduled Task and then use Item-Level Targeting to set it to run on
> certain machines or certain OUs. We are in a K12 District as well and have
> our Staff Machines in different OU’s than the Student Machines, so you could
> do it that way. ScriptingGuys may have some scripts to remove profiles or
> delete folders based on some logic (excluding the default profiles, all
> users, etc.)
>
>
>
> Otherwise you could try moving towards Roaming Profiles and make the student
> ones Mandatory and thus, static.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:42 PM
>
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Martin-
>
> Unfortunately, there’s no granularity in that policy to discriminate by
> group. The only way you could do that is by adding some logic in a script or
> scheduled task. I didn’t realize that delprof.exe doesn’t run on Win 7, but
> I will take a look into this if I get some time.
>
>
>
> Darren
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:37 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hi Darren,
>
>
>
> Didn’t know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an
> answer?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is that
> they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you couldn’t
> fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten much better in
> Win7 but still not 100%.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
>
>
>
> Thanks Marty!
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>
>
> For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete the
> profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet to
> concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
>
>
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> I’d love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary staff at
> my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are running
> W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are filling
> up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to remotely mass
> delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work on Win7) we are
> looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older than X days. Our
> problem is that we only want this to apply to Student accounts, not Staff
> (since Staff will have Outlook and other prefs on our machines that they
> would not want to have to recreate).
>
>
>
> Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a machine
> object?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
>
> Marty
| | | |
| alanhutchinson
Posts:15
| | 02/14/2011 1:52 PM |
| I've been using a script from Joe Shonk :
http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=31
I have a GPO that runs it at boot time and have added some accounts to the exclusion list. Looks like this later version (I'm using v1.8) will also delete based on age. Have only used this on terminal servers but see no reason why it shouldn't run on PC's although your mileage may vary with Windows 7.
Regards,
Alan.
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gustin Johnson
Sent: 11 February 2011 23:14
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
We did a proof of concept for this in Powershell about a year ago.
Just browsing poshcode there seems to be some examples that look similar to what we did. You might want to look at this one for
example:
http://poshcode.org/2477
We scheduled a task that ran the script that removed profiles.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Adam C Juelich <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You'd probably have to write a VBScript to delete all Local Profiles
> and set it as a Scheduled Task and then use Item-Level Targeting to
> set it to run on certain machines or certain OUs. We are in a K12
> District as well and have our Staff Machines in different OU's than
> the Student Machines, so you could do it that way. ScriptingGuys may
> have some scripts to remove profiles or delete folders based on some
> logic (excluding the default profiles, all users, etc.)
>
>
>
> Otherwise you could try moving towards Roaming Profiles and make the
> student ones Mandatory and thus, static.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:42 PM
>
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Martin-
>
> Unfortunately, there's no granularity in that policy to discriminate
> by group. The only way you could do that is by adding some logic in a
> script or scheduled task. I didn't realize that delprof.exe doesn't
> run on Win 7, but I will take a look into this if I get some time.
>
>
>
> Darren
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:37 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hi Darren,
>
>
>
> Didn't know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an
> answer?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is
> that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you
> couldn't fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten
> much better in
> Win7 but still not 100%.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
>
>
>
> Thanks Marty!
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>
>
> For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete
> the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet
> to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
>
>
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary
> staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are
> running
> W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are
> filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to
> remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work
> on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older
> than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to
> Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other
> prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
>
>
>
> Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a
> machine object?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
>
> Marty
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| seblake
Posts:7
| | 02/14/2011 9:14 PM |
| Good morning!
While an automated process is the ultimate goal, the interim might be
resolved with an administrative (paperwork) solution:
We used to have a similar problem where I used to work. We asked HR to
notify us when someone left the company and then we manually deleted their
profile.
FYI.
< Steve >
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Hutchinson, Alan
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 3:35 AM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
I've been using a script from Joe Shonk :
http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&
Itemid=31
I have a GPO that runs it at boot time and have added some accounts to the
exclusion list. Looks like this later version (I'm using v1.8) will also
delete based on age. Have only used this on terminal servers but see no
reason why it shouldn't run on PC's although your mileage may vary with
Windows 7.
Regards,
Alan.
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Gustin Johnson
Sent: 11 February 2011 23:14
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
We did a proof of concept for this in Powershell about a year ago.
Just browsing poshcode there seems to be some examples that look similar to
what we did. You might want to look at this one for
example:
http://poshcode.org/2477
We scheduled a task that ran the script that removed profiles.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Adam C Juelich
<xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You'd probably have to write a VBScript to delete all Local Profiles
> and set it as a Scheduled Task and then use Item-Level Targeting to
> set it to run on certain machines or certain OUs. We are in a K12
> District as well and have our Staff Machines in different OU's than
> the Student Machines, so you could do it that way. ScriptingGuys may
> have some scripts to remove profiles or delete folders based on some
> logic (excluding the default profiles, all users, etc.)
>
>
>
> Otherwise you could try moving towards Roaming Profiles and make the
> student ones Mandatory and thus, static.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:42 PM
>
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Martin-
>
> Unfortunately, there's no granularity in that policy to discriminate
> by group. The only way you could do that is by adding some logic in a
> script or scheduled task. I didn't realize that delprof.exe doesn't
> run on Win 7, but I will take a look into this if I get some time.
>
>
>
> Darren
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 1:37 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hi Darren,
>
>
>
> Didn't know if the saw my OP message at the bottom of this and had an
> answer?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:25 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> One thing that is problematic about deleting profiles, esp. in XP, is
> that they tended to leak resource handles a lot. This meant that you
> couldn't fully delete them unless you rebooted the system. Its gotten
> much better in
> Win7 but still not 100%.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:20 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Ah, great!! I will take a look at that now.
>
>
>
> Thanks Marty!
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:21 PM
> To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>
>
> For XP you can run Delprof.exe remotely from a workstation to delete
> the profiles on machines that you name. We used to use a spreadsheet
> to concatenate the commands into a batchfile and run them at night.
>
>
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Michael Pietrzak
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 3:06 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> I'd love to know a way to do this on XP! We have tons of temporary
> staff at my work. I hate seeing all the old profiles.
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Martin Hugo
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:05 PM
> To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gptalk] Deleting Local Profiles
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> We are a k-12 School district with thousands of computers. We are
> running
> W2K3 and Windows 7 Pro. We are finding that our system drives are
> filling up with local profiles and, given that Windows 7 has no way to
> remotely mass delete them (wish they would re-design delprof to work
> on Win7) we are looking at the Group Policy to delete profiles older
> than X days. Our problem is that we only want this to apply to
> Student accounts, not Staff (since Staff will have Outlook and other
> prefs on our machines that they would not want to have to recreate).
>
>
>
> Is this possible, or does it apply to all profiles once applied to a
> machine object?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much.
>
>
>
> Marty
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