Manage user profiles

[12manParticipant]

#167314

Group,
I am not versed in PowerShell- still learning.

I need to manage Userprofiles on 1000+ computers.
I am starting small.

The end goal is to remotely delete User profiles (other than specials) over 5 days old)

This is the ‘rough’ goal

Get-WMIObject -class Win32_UserProfile -ComputerName ‘XXXXX’| Where {(!$_.LocalPath -like ‘**.*’) -and ($_.ConvertToDateTime($_.LastUseTime) -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-5))} | Remove-WmiObject

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[SIZE=14px]My initial script only deals with the user profiles[/SIZE]:

(Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -ComputerName ‘XXXXX’ | Where {($_.LocalPath -like ‘**.*’)}|)

This successfully enumerates all profiles that fit the pattern (firstname.lastname)

(Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -ComputerName ‘XXXX’ | Where {($_.LocalPath -like ‘**.*’)}| Remove-WmiObject -whatif)

This lists all profiles that would be deleted- no errors

(Get-WmiObject Win32_UserProfile -ComputerName ‘xxxx
‘| Where {($_.LocalPath -like ‘**.*’)}| Remove-WmiObject)

This results in errors…. what am I missing?

[OssianModerator]

#191883

Npt sure of the details, but will Remove-wmiobject remove the actual profile (folder on the PC) or just the entry in the WMI database?

[bas21Member]

#391930

Thanks for the response!
Good question– I am not for certain. Regardless, I do need to figure out why it appears NOT to run.

Remove-WMIObject :
At line:1 char:107
+ … ke ‘**.*’)} | Remove-WMIObject)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Remove-WmiObject], FileLoadException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.FileLoadException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveWmiObject

[MikesTooLzParticipant]

#609433

I just use the delprof2 program and you can easily specify to remove profiles older than x days and also exclude certain accounts.

[wullieb1Moderator]

#609522

Try this

https://powershell.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-delete-user-profile/

Or this pre-built script from Technet, please note that i havn’t tried the script

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-UserProfile-Remove-96e27a3b

If you’re in a domain use GPO??

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28647.how-to-automatically-delete-user-profiles-older-than-a-certain-number-of-days-using-group-policy.aspx

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