Cleaning Up Home Folders with PowerShell
If you use home folders and/or folder redirection, you probably are wasting some space! When a user in AD is deleted, their documents will still remain on your server. To reclaim this space, we can use a very simply PowerShell script:
PowerShell script:
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Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement
$Folders = Get-ChildItem ‘\\SERVER\SHARE’
$Users = Get-QADUser -SizeLimit 100000
$StaffUDriveOnly = Compare-Object $Folders.Name $Users.SamAccountName |
Where-Object {$_.SideIndicator -eq “<=”}
$InputObjects = $StaffUDriveOnly.InputObject
foreach ($InputObject in $InputObjects) {
Remove-item “\\SERVER\SHARE\$InputObject”
-Recurse -Force -WhatIf
}
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This script will compare all of the folder names in on your share against all of the users retrieved by the Get-QADUser command. It will then filter and show you any folder that exists on the share that doesn’t have a corresponding user in AD. Finally, we use Remove-Item to delete these folders and to reclaim some space!
