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Deleting old user profiles
Name: TittenTei Date: October 31, 2005 at 04:02:58 Pacific OS: Windows Server 2003 Stand CPU/Ram: Unknown
Comment:
Hi! Anyone know about a nice way to delete old user profiles data after the user has been deleted in AD Users and Computers? By "user profile data" i mean: \\server\profiles\userX
Name: larsdemo Date: October 31, 2005 at 04:59:22 Pacific
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Stand on the user profile and press delete, after you did that, press "yes" and the user is gone.... i am sooo good at this s--- :)
Lars
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Response Number 2
Name: TittenTei Date: October 31, 2005 at 05:09:31 Pacific
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Well, Lars.. You must be a simple norwegian like me?:)
To be serious, it is not that easy. What I need is to delete both the users profile folders and the home folders of the users I've deleted in AD Users and Computers. And I want to do this automatically..that's the tricky part!?
TittenT.
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Response Number 3
Name: larsdemo Date: October 31, 2005 at 05:48:03 Pacific
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Dont think you will be able to do this automaticaly using a tool in windows server 2003. The only way i can think of is to create a script but even then it will not be a easy problem.
And no i am not norwegian i am from amsterdam.
Regards Lars
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Response Number 4
Name: cbehrent Date: November 1, 2005 at 15:46:17 Pacific
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We use User ManagemeNT for creating users, home drives and profiles etc. It also has a feature to remove them all which we arent using yet.
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