Want dig up old bones (delete local profiles)

[weezy6902]

Hey guys,
I am no programming wiz and just scrape by with the help of ole google and cut n paste so bear with me... I found this thread t"hread329-914916" which talks about deleting profiles on a local computer but notice the user was having problems with using it as im sure the problem was it was being run while the user is in one of the profiels that was to be deleted thus not allowing access to delete...

I want to try this against my domain computers in sort of a "sweep" on all the computers in the domain. Is this a possibility? has anyone done this? If so please share with me the process as I really want to do something like this on a broad scale (150+) machines...

Thanks for any input, As always it is greatly appreciated!

Ben

 

[markdmac]

Just reposting the thread so the link works. thread329-914916

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[markdmac]

Cached Profile Deletion

Administrators can set a registry key on the workstations that forces them to discard the profile after the roaming profile upload on logout. The key is DWORD, is held in the system part of the registry, and is the same in Windows NT as in Windows 2000 & XP. Setting it to a value of 1 turns it on:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\DeleteRoamingCache

The fastest way to implement such a change in Windows 200X is to use a group policy. You simply make this one change centrally, then have it roll out to all computers that you wish to affect. Under Windows 200X, you do not even need to know that this is the key in the registry that is being modified, as this is one of the many default computer options that are available from the GUI, which hides the actual registry keys and values that you are changing.

As I recall the setting is under Profiles in group policy. You can also just add the registry key into group policy by installing this free add in for group policy.

http://www.desktopstandard.com/PolicyMakerRegistryExtension.aspx.

And of course you can easily script the process, but GPO is really the best solution.


I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark