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Dennis Henrik Kristensen
Dennis Henrik Kristensen

Reputation: 11

Removing a windows user using C# (Remotely)

I have been researching for a solution for some time now:

I have tried System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement and System.DirectoryServices.

Currently, I have gotten closes with System.Directory services. Here is my code:

// Connect to pc    
DirectoryEntry locaDirectoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + machineId);
// Find user by userName
    DirectoryEntry user = locaDirectoryEntry.Children.Find(userName);
// Remove the user
    locaDirectoryEntry.Children.Remove(user);
// Commit the changes
    locaDirectoryEntry.CommitChanges();

This code deletes the user, so I cannot see it within "Local Users and Groups -> Users" but the user profile however stays and turns into "Account Unknown".

Now, I have been on numerous websites including this but have not been able to find something that does the trick "completely". I need the user profile to be deleted.

Any help/ thoughts is appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1111

Answers (1)

Dennis Henrik Kristensen
Dennis Henrik Kristensen

Reputation: 11

The code I specified above deletes a login from the computer but does not take care of the user profiles as stated by Damien_The_Unbeliever.

I have been digging in my PowerShell equivalent to the app that I am making and found how I did it there. I use WMI to delete the user profile.

Here is my working code for any soul who could use it:

public string RemoveUser(string machineId, string userName)
{
    string result = null;

    try
    {
        // Create scope and set to computer root.
        ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(@"\\" + machineId + @"\root\cimv2");

        // Connect.
        scope.Connect();

        // Create the query for user profiles and a searcher.
        SelectQuery query = new SelectQuery("Win32_UserProfile");
        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query);

        // Go through each WMI Instance
        foreach (ManagementObject mo in searcher.Get())
        {
            // Normalize username
            string normalUser = mo["LocalPath"].ToString().Split('\\').Last(); 

            // Check whether this is the user to be deleted
            if (normalUser == userName)
            {
                mo.Delete();
                result = "Found user: " + userName + ". Deleting...";
            }

        }

        // This code deletes a user login
        //DirectoryEntry locaDirectoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + machineId);
        //DirectoryEntry user = locaDirectoryEntry.Children.Find(userName);
        //locaDirectoryEntry.Children.Remove(user);
        //locaDirectoryEntry.CommitChanges();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw new Exception(e.Message);
    }

    return result;
}

See the link for properties on UserProfiles. Here is the Delete method.

Upvotes: 1

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