Delete Profiles Script v1.9 http://www.theshonkproject.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:04:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc54 awesome, wildcard support :cheer: fredrik Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:10:44 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc55 Thank you Joe! It\'s everything I need. I\'ll be testing it over the next few weeks. David Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:32:13 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc59 Good to see the profiles excluded by the first round of testing are then excluded in the orphan check. It took a little while to get into the flow of the code and find where I need to make the neccessary changes. I already completed a modification to 1.8 to do a SID check against the domain to look for deleted accounts. I will send it to you so you can incorrporate it into your next version Randall Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:46:07 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc61 Excellent script. I\'ve got a question though. On our terminal servers there is a key ( plus subtree ) in registry \\HLM\\Software\\Windows NT\\Current Version\\winlogon\\ that is delete by delprof.exe and the system tool that is not deleted by your script. Any thoughts as to whether this too should be deleted? Stephen Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:04:30 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc62 Oops, the SID disappeared from that key. It should have been HLM\\Software\\WindowsNT\\Current Version\\winlogon\\SID Stephen Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:09:41 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc78 Has anyone run this script on Vista? I am having some problems getting it to work properly. It will delete the registry data, but everything is left in the registry. If anyone has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate them. Thanks Wood Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:29:08 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc114 Try to run the vbscript as an administrator in vista, unless you are logged in already as a vista administrator. Pat Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:07:53 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc115 Have you gotten the script to run properly in Vista? I am running it from the admin account. I have even run the script as administrator from an admin account. I do think it is a permissions issue as the script thinks that it has deleted the orphaned directories, but they are still present. Wood Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:15:30 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc159 great script - thanks very much! Nik Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:55:20 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc165 I had the same problems at Vista as well. The logs did mention that the profiles being deleted, but none of the personal folder nor registry being deleted. Eric Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:12:58 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc172 Firstly, excellent scripting! But... It needs an extra piece of code to provision the exclusion of the ASPNET profile which is in a slightly different format. ie. %SystemDrive%\\Documents and Settings\\\\ASPNET As the script stands, it looks like (by using read-only mode to test) that it will exclude the profile initially (based on the username being in the exclusion list), but flags the folder as an orphan because doesn\'t match srtUserName (ASPNET) Allan Trudgeon Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:04 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc173 Sorry used greater than and less than symbols in my last post... Firstly, excellent scripting! But... It needs an extra piece of code to provision the exclusion of the ASPNET profile which is in a slightly different format. ie. %SystemDrive%\\Documents and Settings\\\"ServerName\"\\ASPNET As the script stands, it looks like (by using read-only mode to test) that it will exclude the profile initially (based on the username being in the exclusion list), but flags the folder as an orphan because \"ServerName\" doesn\'t match srtUserName (ASPNET) Allan Trudgeon Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:02:09 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc177 Allan, Thanks for the feedback! One way to accomplish what you\'re asking is to use the /E switch to exclude the Profilename/Directory combination. For Example: cscript.exe //nologo deleteprofiles.vbs /E %COMPUTERNAME%,ASPNET You can also use this trick to exclude other Directories in Doc and Settings that otherwise would be flagged as orphaned. I know a lot of places make a copy of the Default User folder before making modifications to it. Since the Copy does not have registry value associated with it, it is consider orphaned and deleted. The exclusion list can specify the folder name instead of the username. Joe Joe Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:48:00 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc213 Great Script!! to quote \'the Cars\' it was \'Just what I needed\' greetings from Holland. Jochem Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:29:36 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc220 Hello Joe, I guess we have a similar quandry here. We have roaming profiles on multiple Citrix servers (I am new here, don\'t know why they did it exactly) as well as the profiles are mapped to DFS shares which are mirrored. At any rate, applications fail if the profile gets corrupt. Right now we have to log on to each Citrix server that has the roaming profile (we have a VB script to show which servers have the profile and which don\'t) and manually delete them via the Properties of the Computer -> Advanced -> User profiles Settings button -> select -> Delete button. My questions are as such: Does your script perform the exact same function as the Windows user profile delete button and two: can your script be easily used to remotely touch a list of servers to perform the same functions on one profile. It\'s a bit of a toughy but we\'re hitting a wall here. Sandy Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:29:10 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc228 this is a great job here! I just have a problem with hidden folder \"Default\" which I must keep, but it\'s always deleted even with option \"/E Default\". am I doing something wrong? :0 thanks again Alex Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:28:30 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc229 It did not work properly for me either. I ran it will admin privileges and the logs indicated the profiles were deleted, but they were not deleted. Jarud Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:43:08 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc230 The exclusion line in the script above is really long (I\'ll split in the next version) so the website word wraps and breaks the line where the space is in default user. Make that this line: strProfileExclusionList = \"|administrator|all users|default user|localservice|networkservice|public|ctx_smauser|ctx_cpuuser|ctx_cpsvcuser|ctx_streamingsvc|ctx_configmgr|\" is really one line and that there is a space between default and user. It should look something like |default user| To exclude using the /E switch the syntax would be /E \"default user\" Joe Joe Shonk Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:46:54 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc233 Hello Sandy, To answer your questions: Yes, the script performs the same function as if you were to delete the profile by using the GUI Second, you can run the script remotely using PSEXEC.EXE as sysinternals tool that is now owned by Microsoft. You could write a simple CMD script that loops through a list of server names and runs PSEXEC.EXE w/ the DeleteProfiles.vbs script. You can also use the /I to limit the profile deletion to a single object. Joe Joe Shonk Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:24:34 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc235 Does this script take the local users out of the manage area? Also, I dont want it to take domain profiles, it wont do that will it? Stephen Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:51 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc293 hello Joe, thanks for the reply. I\'ve checked and the strProfileExclusionList line is 1 piece with no space. But the hidden folder \"Default\" is always deleted :huh:, Public is not, for instance. I\'m on vista business what else could I check? Alex Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:20:25 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc294 I think I\'ve got it now that I have Vista machine up and run. In the strProfileExclusionList = line append the follow to the end \"|default user|default|\" There needs to be a space between the default and user, there needs to be a pipe delimiter | before and after, and the entries need to be all lowercase. Joe Joe Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:03:33 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc295 it seems to be working with |default user|default| at the end ! I already tried but with first letter in uppercase and didn\'t work. thanks again :lol: Alex Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:38:05 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc343 I\'ve been trying to get this working in Vista as well. It appears to run, and the registry appears to get deleted but not the local files. Am I missing anything simple? I\'ve added the tweaks above and am running this as a domain administrator (tried both running directly on the machine and via a startup script). Thanks, John John Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:52:13 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc363 Excellent ! :woohoo: Saved me lots of time reinventing the wheel ! ;) BTW, I found a Typo in the code: :evil: Line 59: flgLogFile = Flase should be flgLogFile = False Some Advise :idea: : Turn on the Option Explicit Comment the \"On Error Resume Next\" line and debug the the code through all the lines. You will then catch many Errors that one will miss. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:15:09 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc364 Good eye! I went ahead and update the block of code. Joe Joe Shonk Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:57:32 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc367 Is anyone else having troubles getting this to remove the folders in C:\\Users? I was able to get them removed by a combination of this script and some .net code (using system.io.directoryinfo): Dim di As New System.IO.DirectoryInfo(args(0)) di.Delete(True) ...but don\'t like the idea of needing multiple scripts/applications for this simple task. If I\'m not missing something and there is no easier way I may reverse engineer this script into a .net application that can be called from a startup script. Any information is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Anonymous Wed, 13 May 2009 12:01:44 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc408 The script fails to run on two out of four of my Citrix Servers, with no errors. Any ideas. Kurt Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:58:47 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc430 Did I miss a step? I\'m typing the following: C:\\>cscript deleteprofiles.vbs /E kkg I get the following error: deleteprofiles.vbs(1, 1) Microsoft VBScript compilation error: Invalid character KGodoy Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:11:14 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc431 Apperantly if I copy and paste the code into notepad, it inserts text that doesn\'t show up on notepad. Even if I use Notepad++ and tell it to save it as ANSI, it still adds the extra characters. I was able to open it in EDIT from the command prompt and the culprit characters showed up, I saved it and now I\'m running it on a test computer filled with old profiles. No errors after 5 mintues, so I\'m assuming it\'s good. Thanks for the script!!! KGodoy Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:31:55 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc440 Great script! Thanks for sharing. It seems that some profiles are not deleted by the script. When I go back and manually delete the folders, The warming pops up saying the folder \'contains items whose name is too long for the recycle bin\". Anyone else get that? Mike Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:57:56 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc455 Thanks for this great script. As others have mentioned, I\'m also not getting the folders inside the users folder to delete with vista. Is there any update to this issue? What am I missing? Any suggestions? Thanks. Roy Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:37:00 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc467 Is anyone running this on server 2008 yet? MBlinde Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:49:07 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc487 here is the cmd file I am trying to run, it reports every profile on exlcusion list. cscript.exe E:\\Temp\\DeleteProfiles.vbs /R /C /L C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\LogFiles\\deleteprofiles.log /D 30 /E \"|administrator|all users|all users.bak|ctx_cpsvcuser|ctx_smauser|ctx_streamingsvc|default user|packager|localservice|networkservice|svc_ctxpbm|citrixadmin|raadmin|mastercyl|reboot|nettime|uh3hkai| is78301|ds064|\" John Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:45:10 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc578 Hi Joe, First, compliments for an effective script. Now a question... How can I get a notification that the script has failed when using the /I option and typing a profile name which is not actually on the machine (for instance when I\'ve made a typo). The current output log is a bit to much for when you are using the script on multiple machines with quite a big number of profiles to remove. Thanks! DiLupo DiLupo Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:29:49 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc582 I\'ve been trying to get this working in Windows 7 as well. It appears to run, and the registry appears to get deleted, but not the local profile folders. Am I missing anything simple? Thanks, Richard Richard Meza Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:16 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc584 Has anyone responded to your solution regarding deleteprofile NOT deleting c:\\User\\ folders for Windows 7? Regards. -R Richard Meza Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:24:10 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc624 [b]THANK YOU![/b] Great script. Thank you so much for your work. This is very helpful to keep our computers clean. With the exclusion list (with wildcard supports) this script runs perfectly in our environment. Why can\'t Microsoft implement such things originally? Keep it up! Best regards. Bobby McCracken Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:55:00 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc638 The script looks amazing, and definitely has some major ability to fix some of our problems over here. However I\'m unable to get altiris 6.9 to see the script. The script is placed both in a network drive and on Altiris\' desktop for my account and the admin\'s account. I have domain admin rights, so it\'s not a rights/permissions issue. The error Altiris throws an error saying that the script at both locations, below, are not found. It doesn\'t matter if I run it with switches or not. cscript.exe C:\\Users\\\\Desktop\\DeleteProfiles.vbs /E /I *.* /L C:\\ProfileLog.log /R /V cscript.exe \\\\\\tech-share\\New Software\\Scripts\\Delete Profiles\\DeleteProfiles.vbs Ben Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:52:33 +0100 http://www.theshonkproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50#josc639 Hello, It\'s not about the rights that you have to run the script but more of which right the Altiris service account has to run the script. Make sure that account has access to the network share and to the local machine. Joe Joe Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:58:51 +0100