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Juggybash
Juggybash

Reputation: 25

Powershell Script for deleting AD User & Profile

im a complete newbie at coding/powershell. I "wrote" this small Script

$Username = Read-Host -Prompt 'Bitte den Usernamen eingeben'

$HomeDirectory = '\\server\user'
$ProfilePath = '\\server\profiles'
$TsProfiles = '\\server\tsprofiles'

foreach ($user in $Username) {
    Remove-ADUser -Identity $user
}

foreach ($user in $Username) {
    Remove-Item "$HomeDirectory\$user" -Recurse -Force -Verbose -whatif
}

foreach ($user in $Username) {
    Remove-Item -Path "$ProfilePath\$user" -Recurse -Force -Verbose -whatif
}

foreach ($user in $Username) {
    Remove-Item "$TsProfiles\$user*" -Recurse -Force -Verbose -whatif
}

Now this Script is running fine. But i have one small "problem"

1.) For some User there is no TsProfiles or ProfilePath or User. So when i run the script i get this error

At line:15 char:5
+     Remove-Item -Path "$ProfilePath\$user" -Recurse -Force -Verbose - ...
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (\\server\profiles\myusername:String) [Remove-Item], ItemNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

For sure because there is no such path as the user dont have a Profile in that folder. Now im searching for a solution which can write me something like this to a Logfile

** HomeDirectory of %Username% deleted **

** TsProfiles of %Username% deleted **

** Profilepath for %Username% not found **

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1239

Answers (1)

TheMadTechnician
TheMadTechnician

Reputation: 36287

Ok, first off you should have it all in one loop, not several loops, but you are only working with 1 user, so there's nothing to loop through. We'll just remove all the loops.

Then, if you want to output if you deleted something you need to check if that something is there. For users we can use Get-ADUser, and for file paths we can use Test-Path.

$Username = Read-Host -Prompt 'Bitte den Usernamen eingeben'

$HomeDirectory = '\\server\user'
$ProfilePath = '\\server\profiles'
$TsProfiles = '\\server\tsprofiles'

If(Get-ADUser $username){
    Remove-ADUser -Identity $username
    Add-Content -Value "** User Account for $Username deleted **" -Path $LogFile
}Else{
    Add-Content -Value "** User Account for $Username not found **" -Path $LogFile
}
If(Test-Path "$HomeDirectory\$username"){
    Remove-Item "$HomeDirectory\$username" -Recurse -Verbose -Force -WhatIf
    Add-Content -Value "** HomeDirectory of $Username deleted **" -Path $LogFile
}Else{
    Add-Content -Value "** HomeDirectory of $Username not found **" -Path $LogFile
}
If(Test-Path "$ProfilePath\$username"){
    Remove-Item "$ProfilePath\$username" -Recurse -Verbose -Force -WhatIf
    Add-Content -Value "** ProfilePath of $Username deleted **" -Path $LogFile
}Else{
    Add-Content -Value "** ProfilePath of $Username not found **" -Path $LogFile
}
If(Test-Path "$TsProfiles\$username"){
    Remove-Item "$TsProfiles\$username" -Recurse -Verbose -Force -WhatIf
    Add-Content -Value "** TsProfiles of $Username deleted **" -Path $LogFile
}Else{
    Add-Content -Value "** TsProfiles of $Username not found **" -Path $LogFile
}

Upvotes: 1

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