If the previous administrators were sloppy, and did not delete a user's folders when the user was deleted, you might have many unused folders remaining on your profile and home shares, or on a local hard drive.

Using the DSQUERY USER command, if have scripted UsrClnUp.bat to remove all deleted users folders in a path that you specify.

The syntax for using UsrClnUp.bat is:

UsrClnUp ServerPath1 \[ServerPath2 ..... ServerPathN\]

where the ServerPath points to the parent folder, or share, that you wish to purge of deleted user folders.

Examples:

usrclnup \\DC1\HomeShare \\DC2\ProfileShare

usrclnup "C:\Documents and Settings"

for /f "Tokens=*" %u in ('usrclnup \\DC1\HomeShare \\DC2\ProfileShare') do @echo %u>>Report.txt
The above is typed at a CMD prompt and redirects the console output to a file.

pipe "%userprofile%\My Documents\report.txt" c:\folder\usrclnup.bat \\DC1\HomeShare \\DC2\ProfileShare

usrclnup \\DC1\HomeShare \\DC2\ProfileShare 2>>&1 | mtee "%userprofile%\My Documents\report.txt"

NOTE: UsrClnUp.bat assumes that a user's folder is named the same as their user name.

NOTE: You must run UsrClnUp.bat on a Windows XP workstation, or on a Windows Server 2003 computer.

UsrClnUp.bat contains:

@echo off
If \{%1\}
\{\} @echo Syntax: UsrClnUp ServerPath1 \[ServerPath2 ..... ServerPathN\]&goto :EOF
setlocal
:loop
if \{%1\}
\{\} goto :Finish
set sp=%1
@echo Begin processing the %sp% path.
set up=%sp:"=%
for /f "Tokens=*" %%h in ('dir /b /ad %sp%') do set user=%%h&call :chkusr
shift
goto loop
:Finish
endlocal
goto :EOF
:chkusr
set dn="N"
for /f "Tokens=*" %%x in ('dsquery user -samid "%user%" -o dn') do set dn=%%x
if %dn% NEQ "N" goto :EOF
RD /s /q "%up%\%user%"
@echo "%up%\%user%" deleted.