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Need help pulling profile folder sizes from workstations
I am in the process of rolling out folder redirection for our users. We currently have over 1000 workstations and I need to get an idea of the size of users profiles so I can size the file server acc...
Perhaps it's a permissions thing, if you connect to a computer using UNC, can you actually open the folder? (Not exclusive rights for just the user?)
Another approach would be to create a Scheduled Task on each computer which starts a report script after the user logs in (5 minutes after login for example) and outputs the report in a share as username_timestamp. The user has rights on their profile and the scan will have no issue I guess?
Another approach would be to create a Scheduled Task on each computer which starts a report script after the user logs in (5 minutes after login for example) and outputs the report in a share as username_timestamp. The user has rights on their profile and the scan will have no issue I guess?
- I'll look into the permission angel. I've considered that running it locally and doing a file per user. But with 1000+ workstations, that would be a lot of reports to dig through. Having them all append a single file would be nice, but at that point I'm basically looking at building a database.
- Did you manage to get this working?
- You can always to type *.txt >> output.txt to combine all the files 😉 I hope it works out for you 🙂
