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script to delete user profiles and data
Hi, Please can someone help me with this as I am really stuck! For my code above I am receiving the following: Line 36, Char 6, Error: Permission denied. Line 36 is the line that deletes the "userdata" : objFSO.DeleteFolder(strUserData) It echoes me back telling me which userdata it wants to... -
script to delete user profiles and data
Hi again. I'm really in a mess with this one. I found 2 problems, please see below: 1. I am receiving the following error: Line 36, Char 6, Error: Permission denied. Line 36 is the line that deletes the "userdata" : objFSO.DeleteFolder(strUserData) It echoes me back telling me which userdata it... -
script to delete user profiles and data
Hi PHV man, thanks for your advice, on the takeown /? there is a parameter /A that allows me to take ownership as administrator. I put this in front of the /F and it seems to take ownership as administrator.It seems to have done the trick! I will further test this tomorrow to delete batches of... -
script to delete user profiles and data
Hi PHV, thank you for your quick response. Do I just add /U /P switches after the TAKEOWN command like the line below: wshShell.Run "CMD /K TAKEOWN /F /U /P """ & strUserData & """ /R /D Y", 1, True Is this correct? Please may you confirm this as I am unsure of this. Many thanks. -
script to delete user profiles and data
Hi PHV and Geates. Thank you both for your help on this. Geates, i'm sorry but I made a mistake. "Line 45, error: access denied" is refering to: objFSO.DeleteFolder(strUserData) and this line is suppose to delete the "profile folder" and NOT the "userdata folder" so my apologies for my mistake... -
script to delete user profiles and data
Hi PHV, I'm not sure whats happened man, but when I run the script now, the command line interface will come up and I receive the following error: ''\\rcmutility\software\VB SCRIPT\Script to delete STUDENT AD accounts, profiles and userdata' CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the... -
script to delete user profiles and data
Thank you or your response PHV. I will try this as I am back in work tomorrow (I was working on this script all evening today). I'm a junior programmer, so Im not sure how to use WScript.Echo May you give me an example? Many thanks! -
script to delete user profiles and data
Hi, I want to start this as a new thread as I spent many hours and still couldn't work this one out. The script below deletes all the userprofiles and userdata of all those accounts in a specified AD OU. However I login to the File server that contains all the user profiles and userdata and run... -
VBScript to take ownership
Hi Everyone, Just to let you know that this is now finally sort (not the first time I said this, but lets hope this is final time) I found out the reason why it isn't taking ownership is because the "profilepath" field in AD is not always specified in AD or is specified incorrectly with the... -
VBScript to take ownership
Sorry, I forgot to add I login to the server to run the script as a Domain Admin so I should have full permissions -
VBScript to take ownership
Hi guitarzan, Thank you for your extremely helpful advice. I have done what you said. Please see below answers to your questions 1. I login to the server that contains all the user profiles and userdata. 2. The script says "permission denied" and tells me which userdata my permission is... -
VBScript to take ownership
Dear Sir/Madam, unfortunately no one has responded to me yet but I am still having issues :( When I run the script that Phylum has kindly written for me, I receive continuous error loops that does end that say the following: Error 70 occurred while trying to 'objFSO.DeleteFolder... -
VBScript to take ownership
Hi Phylum, Ahhh, my apologies but I think I spoke too soon.. I have amended your script so it "Does not delete the user object from AD." I simply just remove that section from the script so it keeps the object in AD. But now I am getting continuous error loop that doesn't end saying: Error... -
VBScript to take ownership
Hi Phylum, I would just like to say from what I test so far, it works like a gem! Thank you so much for all your time on assisting me, I really appreciate this. Happy Chinese New year to you too! Fong -
VBScript to take ownership
Many thanks for your most helpful Phylum. I will test this and see how I go. Fong
