So I wrote this ugly code quite some time ago. Since I have seen a few new posts in the script gallery with versions I figured I should at least post a version of what I had done a few years ago and re-used recently. Situations like shared computers and RDS can have a computer looking ragged with local profiles created on login and then not touched again. This causes capacity issues but can also cause performance issues. There used to be a utility called delprof which was great but even if it were around why not script it right?
Function clean-localprofiles { [CmdletBinding()] Param ( [Parameter(Position = 0)] [ValidateNotNullorEmpty()] [int]$Days = 30, [string]$rptFile = "somefile name here" ) BEGIN { "---- Internal RDS Profile Monitor Start {0}" -f (get-date -f "MM/dd/yy hh:mm") | out-file $rptFile -Append Write-Warning "Filtering for user profiles older than $Days days" $profs = Get-CimInstance win32_userprofile -ComputerName computer1, computer2 | Where { $_.LastUseTime -lt $(Get-Date).Date.AddDays(- $days) -AND $_.SID.Length -gt 8 -AND $_.Loaded -eq $False } } PROCESS { ForEach ($obj in $profs) { $uname = $obj.LocalPath.Split("\") | select -Last 1 "Removing profile for {0} from {1} which was last used {2}" -f $uname, $obj.pscomputername, $obj.LastUseTime | out-file $rptFile -Append Try { Remove-CimInstance -InputObject $obj -ComputerName $obj.pscomputername } Catch { "Unable to remove profile" | out-file $rptFile -Append } } # Complete } END { "---- Internal RDS Profile Monitor Complete {0}" -f (get-date -f "MM/dd/yy hh:mm") | out-file $rptFile -Append } } Clean-localprofiles
That’s about it. I updated the process from WMI to CIM (where possible) and tweaked based on changes to Powershell but relatively unchanged. Yeah checked my OneDrive, first script was dated in 2012…
This looks good but do you think it will delete system profiles?
The code is written to ignore system profiles as it only processes profiles with a SID length greater than 8
Get-CimInstance win32_userprofile -ComputerName $server |
Where { $_.LastUseTime -lt $(Get-Date).Date.AddDays(- $days) -AND $_.SID.Length -gt 8 -AND $_.Loaded -eq $False }