Re: Deleting temporary user profiles

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Hello Meinolf,

thanks for your response.

How can we manage to
a) prevent that these certain folders are being synchronized with the
roaming profile, so that they only stay on the local copy of the
profile?

The profile will be copied complete, you can not exclude some of them. But
you can configure the max. profile size with GPO so if the user goes over
the limit, he has to delete or copy some of his data, mostly files on desktop,
to another folder or network drive.

We do not want to allow any files to be safed on folders like the Desktop
(only .lnk files should be placed here) to keep this one small and clean.
The problem are the folders like AppData or similar (see under b the Google
Earth example). We need to find a way to get rid of this "temporary" data
only used by local applications, once the user does not need them anymore,
because he no longer uses the computer on which this particular software is
installed.

b) delete these local folders if the user hasn't logged in on this
computer
over a given period of time (say two weeks or so)?

If you just delete some folders from the profile some app's maybe run not
correctly anymore.
A corrupt app is probably not a severe problem.
Say, a user installs Google Earth locally and gets his AppData folder filled
with lots of megabytes. Now he leaves the company or goes to another location
where he uses another computer: He has to reinstall Google Earth on his new
computer and the local data which remained on the old computer has become
useless.
So we should be able to delete these profile folders without this causing
major problems.

Or do you mean to delete the complete local user profile?

I mean to delete the complete local user profile, if you will (see context
above).
We have a lot of employee fluctuation here and many people are sharing one
computer. So we noticed that the local hard drive gets full with lots of old
and unused local profile copies.
Now we are looking for a clean way (e.g. group policies) to get rid of them
if they have not been used over a given period of time.

Thanks in advance for any further advice!
.

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