Monitor you Profile directories
Since I had worked as a Citrix administrator the size of the profile directories was always a contemporary issue. It’s a fact that with new technologies like Citrix User Profile Manager the possibilities are grown and the life is easier with exclusion lists and profile streaming features. But it’s still a topic to consider if you are a Citrix admin or system engineer. I worked in former company with tools like TreeSize (https://www.jam-software.com/treesize/) or WinDir Stat (http://windirstat.info). But in some company they wont to spend money for tools which is only usable for one administrator or they don’t trust to OpenSource software (TreeSize).
I have the approach to solve every possible problem with on-board tools. So I created now a small script what give me the possibility to check my Profile directory with one recursive level so that I get each Size of a Profile within his subdirectories.:
#==============================================================================================
# Created on: 10.2015 Version: 0.3
# Created by: Sacha Thomet
# Filename: GetSubdirSizes.ps1
#
#
# Description: Collect Size of Dir's and Subsirs
#
# Prerequisite: None
#
# Call by : Manual
#
# Change Log:
# V0.1 first version
# V0.2 only 1 recursive subfolder
# V0.3 corrections of calculation
#
#==============================================================================================
$path = "\localhostC$tempprofiles"
$top = "4000"
$outputpath = "C:tempSubdirSize-Report.txt"
Function Get-FolderSize
{
$Sizes = 0
ForEach ($Item in (Get-ChildItem $Path))
{
If ($Item.PSIsContainer) {$Sizes = (Get-ChildItem $path"$Item" -recurse | Measure-Object -property length -sum).sum}
Else {Write-Host "No Subfolder"}
$SizeFormated = "{0:N2}" -f ($Sizes/1MB)
New-Object PSObject -Property @{'Folder'=$Item;'Size'=$SizeFormated }
}
}
$outfile = Get-FolderSize $path | sort -property Size –Descending |select -first $top
$outfile | out-file $outputpath
echo $outfile
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Love it. I had to do the same thing in one of my environments I monitored. I also have a script somewhere that will delete the profile if the users profile wasn’t updated in a year. With this delete process it would also generate a log of the profiles that were deleted which was nice for reporting.
You only have to create a delete script if you don’t have a good user retention/deletion process 🙁
Can you share the delete script as well? I work for one of those “don’t have a good user retention / deletion process” companies. 😉
Thanks for this awesome script also! One thing I noticed is that when copy / pasting as a .ps1 file, I got an error on line 37 before the -Descending .. had to backspace and re-enter.. think there’s some ascii issue with the copy / paste.
Brad, to be honest I do this manually because we have not so many profiles grow to much. But what I can provide you is a Script which moves a list of directories fro a file (userdirtoremove.txt) in an other folder.
You can delete them a week later …
Just use Excel to find your Top10 or Top100 Profiles you like to remove.
I have also a script which compare the directories and Activedirectory to find orfan profiles … Maybe I’ll share that soon in a new blog article.
This is the script to move directories from a list in a file:
# define paths and usernamesuffix
$sourcepath = “\servershare$ts8k” #Source
$destpath = “\servershare$ts8kto_delete” #Destination
$inputfile = “C:Scriptsuserdirtoremove.txt”
$subdirsuffix = “.w2k8” #optional if you have a suffix after to profile e.g. username is U123456 and profile-dir is U123456.w2k8
# — don’t change below
#Mainprogram
#Get the Subdir names into array $subdirname
$FileContent = Get-Content $inputfile
foreach($content in $FileContent)
{
Write-Host “Moving Direcotry $content$subdirsuffix from $sourcepath to $destpath”
Move-Item $sourcepath$content$subdirsuffix $destpath
}
Thanks for this – it really helps me, although I get an error if a subdirectory is empty – which most of our profiles are. Can someone adjust the script to cater for this?