Deleting Users Folder - Script Help

I have a script that goes out and deletes the contents of users network
shares if they have not accessed them in 365 days. It does leave the folder
itself in case this user deceides to start using it again. Instead of going
by the last time the folder was wrote to, I want to revise the script to read
in from an input file with a list of users I will query out of Active
Directory. This should decrease the processing time of tyring to get when
the folder was last wrote to.

Would it be better to export that list to a text file and use the
get-content cmdlet?

Or export them to a .CSV file and use the import-csv cmdlet?

Either way I guess would work, but I was trying to figure out how to get it
to loop so it processes the whole file.

The current script is below:

# Change location to the Users directory
set-location E:\Users

#Set the numbers of days back we want to purge
$DateLimit = (get-date).AddDays(-365)

#Check last time the folders were wrote to
foreach ($UserDir in (get-childitem X:\Users | where {$_.PSIsContainer})) {
$newItems = Get-ChildItem $UserDir -rec | where {$_.LastWriteTime -gt
$DateLimit}

#Remove files and subfolders including read only files
if (!$newItems) {
remove-item $UserDir\* -recurse -force
}
}

If you have more than one value per user you should use csv.


$DateLimit = (get-date).AddDays(-365)

#Check last time the folders were wrote to
get-content users.txt | foreach {
$UserDir = "X:\Users\$_"
if ((get-item $UserDir).LastWriteTime -gt $DateLimit) {
Get-ChildItem $UserDir -rec | remove-item -force
}
}



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Shay Levi
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I don't have one than one value per user.

I just want to read in the list of users who need this procedure done from a
file.

The the whole section where you check the last time the folder was wrote to
can be removed because I can query AD the last time the user logged on to see
if they are still active. Guess I didn't explain it very well.

I am going to get a list from AD of users who haven't logged into the
network in the past 365 days, export those to a list, and read in from that
list in my script to delete the contents of the users folders who appear in
the list, but leave the actual user folder itself.

"Shay Levi" wrote:

Export users to csv or query them directly from AD and then pipe to foreach.

If you export manually to csv:

import-csv users.csv | foreach {
# check if the folder exists
if(test-path "$UserDir\$user" -pathtype container){
Get-ChildItem "$UserDir\$user" -recurse | remove-item -force
} else {
write-warning "$UserDir\$user doesn't exist"
}
}



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Shay Levi
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Add the -WhatIf parameter, it allows you to find what would have happen if
you actually executed it.

Get-ChildItem "$UserDir\$user" -recurse | remove-item -force -WhatIf

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Shay Levi
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I see now, and using the get-childitem that will leave the users actual main
folder and delete the contents right?

"Shay Levi" wrote:

Correct.

I also had a typo, $user should be $_, here's the modified version:

import-csv users.csv | foreach {
# check if the folder exists
if(test-path "$UserDir\$_" -pathtype container){
Get-ChildItem "$UserDir\$_" -recurse | remove-item -force
} else {
write-warning "$UserDir\$_ doesn't exist"
}
}


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Shay Levi
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OK, I just checked back because it wasn't working and read that you said you
had a typo. Am I correct on this now?

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# Change location to the Users directory
set-location x:\Users

import-csv users.csv | foreach {
# check if the folder exists
if(test-path "$UserDir\$_" -pathtype container){
Get-ChildItem "$UserDir\$_" -recurse | remove-item -force -whatif
} else {
write-warning "$UserDir\$_ doesn't exist"
}
}
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What I was seeing before was it wasn't really taking my csv file into
account and just wanting to delete all the child items of every folder and
the main users folder itself.

"Shay Levi" wrote:

One thing.. the $UserDir value should be "x:\Users", no need to set location


$UserDir="x:\Users"

import-csv users.csv | foreach {
# check if the folder exists
if(test-path "$UserDir\$_" -pathtype container){
Get-ChildItem "$UserDir\$_" -recurse | remove-item -force -whatif
} else {
write-warning "$UserDir\$_ doesn't exist"
}
}

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