Deleting Local Profiles

[Mr_M_Cox]

Firstly i am sure this will have been discussed on another thread, i did search but could not find it. if someone knows of a relevant thread please just post link.

i want to delete all local profiles other than administrator and all users from my XP workstations in a 2003 domain when a user logs off. any ideas

Thanks

[Domino]

have a search fpr Delprof, it'll run from the network and do it

[Mr_M_Cox]

from what i know, and i may well be wrong, i think delprof will delete all profiles and not leave certain ones. i also need it to run unattended at log off

[Geoff]

It'll leave All Users, Default User and Administrator alone.

[lovelldr]

Doesn't the user profile hive cleanup (or whatever it's called) do this?

Basically, you just need to install it on the local machine, ensure that you have left whichever profiles you want loaded onto the machine, and when a user logs off, it deletes their own profile. This only works assuming you have roaming profiles set up though iirc...

hth

[webman]

Bossman made a vbscript to delete all but some profiles from local machines, and assigned it via GPO as a shutdown script. Attached here, might be handy...

[Mr_M_Cox]

that script you uploaded is supurb, thank you. one question. i have run it with exclusions on administrator and all users but now my users cant log in with an error of cant find profile. is this because i have deleted default user?

[Geoff]

Yes

[ChrisH]

The default profile should recreate itself though.

[Geoff]

I'm fairly sure it doesn't.

[Oops_my_bad]

You will have to recreate the default user if it's gone (probably best way is just copy any local profile folder and rename it default user i'd have thought).

I find this works best as a computer startup script, that way the little darlings dont forcibly switch the PC off whilst it runs shutdown scripts

[JamesC]

Use delprof. It comes as an msi that can be deployed via group policy. Then create a script and set it to run on startup to run delprof and the desired switches. I'm pretty sure you can have delprof delete local and/or roaming profiles depending on the switches used. So if you didnt want your local profiles removed then you can set it to remove roaming profiles only.

James

[tech_guy]

Use delprof. It comes as an msi that can be deployed via group policy. Then create a script and set it to run on startup to run delprof and the desired switches. I'm pretty sure you can have delprof delete local and/or roaming profiles depending on the switches used. So if you didnt want your local profiles removed then you can set it to remove roaming profiles only.

James

Yeah, and Mattx has got it on his very handy Admin's Admin Toolbar.

[Norphy]

You don't even need to deploy delprof, you can run it from a network share. I always used to bung it in \\domain.tld\netlogon and run it as a shutdown script.

[RabbieBurns]

delprof isnt working for me. Have it set to run as a machine startup script from a world readable share. The policy is definately being applied. But the profiles arent being deleted.

am I doing something wrong?