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I love live@edu, however, I want to spread the word about an issue. This is probably specific to the US, but Microsoft requires that the parent input a credit card number and to be debited $0.50 as a way to approve their child's participation. This is because we have a law here called COPPA which restricts what children under 13 can do online. Still, I think a credit card is a pretty terrible way to address that restriction, especially for a school-sponsored service.

I also wrote a PowerShell script - I think it's a modification of the one that rpwillis posted as I remember the Salamander from another forum somewhere :-) I have put in red the parameters you would want to change for your environment. I am finding PowerShell to be a great tool! (the smiley face is actually two colons followed by the word DENY) $InitialFolder = "\\depot\studentstest$\" #$Files = Get-ChildItem $InitialFolder -include desktop.ini -recurse -force #$folders = Get-ChildItem W:\ $folders = Get-ChildItem | where-object {$_.psiscontainer}; foreach ($folder in $folders) { $Files = Get-ChildItem $folder -Filter desktop.ini -Force Write-Host Processing $folder , $folder.count files found -foreground "BLACK" Foreach ($File in $Files) { if ($File -ne $null) { $colRights = [system.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights]"Read" $InheritanceFlag = [system.Security.AccessControl.InheritanceFlags]::None $PropagationFlag = [system.Security.AccessControl.PropagationFlags]::None $objType =[system.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlType]::DENY $objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("Administrators") $objACE = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule ` ($objUser, $colRights, $InheritanceFlag, $PropagationFlag, $objType) $objACL = Get-ACL $File $objACL.AddAccessRule($objACE) Set-ACL $file $objACL } } }

I can't believe that I *just* found this website! So, we are having the same issue - lots of home folders being deleted, quite randomly, by Windows 7. I have an active Tech Support case open with Microsoft and my Account Rep just moved it to a Premier Support Case because the lower-level techs haven't found a solution. The case has been open for nearly 4 weeks, so I believe it is either a bug in Windows 7 or some application is deleting the home folders. The deletion happens on login. A few things have helped, like turning off IPv6. I also created a workaround, which was a PowerShell script to prevent users from deleting their own folder by resetting their NTFS security ACL. That did work, but I later removed the workaround so that we could continue to try to pin down the problem - I didn't want a band-aid solution, particularly one that requires a custom script. Additionally: we ARE using offline files (and I want to use that feature). We DO NOT have quotas. I also manage this daily through a PowerShell script which compares home folders to AD student accounts. I run it every couple of hours and it tells me if folders were deleted, so I can restore them and move on. With Volume Shadow Copies turned on, it's easy to restore the files ... but we are also a small district. I am running into this between 2-5 times per day at this point. It was 10-20x/day at he beginning, so some of the measures I've taken (mostly, turning off IPv6) have helped. I also resolved the "My Documents" issue via a PowerShell script - by changing the security on desktop.ini so that Administrators don't have read-access to that file. At least then I can see the whole list of user folders by name from the server share. Another admin I know has a logout script which deletes the desktop.ini file at logout. Wow, I am so happy to have found this forum with other school tech people! We have a great email list in New Hampshire, but it's comforting to see others in other parts of the world who are having the same issues.