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Greetings all,

I have been working this issue for well over a month now. I didn’t want to post, because I didn’t want to appear too dumb on this forum. You are all so smart and experienced. I thought I could figure this out on my own. I was wrong.
Additionally, I would like to thank you all. Your experience published here has helped me very much in furthering my PS understanding.

My question follows from the following facts:

<initial script received from on-high>

# Root-Ordner in dem die Userordner liegen
$userroot = 'wffs01profile_old'
# alle User aus dem AD lesen
$users = get-aduser -Filter * | select -Expand SamAccountName
gci $userroot | ?{$_.PSIsContainer -and ($_.Name -replace '.(V2|V5|V6)$','') -notin $users}

I have two directories:

• A) old AD Users
• B) current AD Users
• Each of the subdirectories in A has an extension of .V2.
• None of the subdirectories in B has an extension of .V2.
• I have assumed from the beginning that I need to remove the .V2 extension before I can do a compare (not sure if this is the best solution).

This is the main issue.

The files / profile directories as seen in Windows Explorer:

I read that directory contents into $oldADUsers:

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $oldADUsers =gci $userroot | % basename
PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $oldADUsers

…

AfsgrA.V2
afsgrb.V2
afsgrC.V2
AfsGrD.V2
afsgre.V2
afsgrf.V2
afsgrg.V2
afsgrh.V2
afstelgte.V2

…

I have a list of current AD users, read into $currentrADUsers:

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $currentADUsers = get-aduser -filter * | sort-object | select samaccountname

…

afsgra
afsgrb
afsgrc
afsgrd
afsgre
afsgrf
afsgrg
afstelgte

…
<h2>I am stuck here.</h2>
VARIABLES:

• $userroot:     fileserverprofile_testprofile_old$ -- Directory which holds old profile directories.
• $oldADUsers  --  PS Variable which holds list of names of old AD users’ profile directories.
• $currentADUsers  --  PS Variable which holds list of names of current AD users’ profile directories.

I am stuck here.

Here is my logic:

1.       Read the names of the contents of the profile_test directory into the variable $oldADUsers.

2.       Read the names of the current AD Users into the variable $currentADUsers.

3.       If there exists a profile directory name in $oldADusers which matches a profile directory name in $currentADUsers, then leave it be with no changes.

4.       If there exists NO profile directory name in $oldADUsers which matches a profile directory name in $currentADUsers, then delete the profile directory recursively from $oldADUsers.

5.       If there exists a profile directory name in $oldADUsers for which there is NO match in $currentADUsers, then take ownership of that user’s old profile, and then delete recursively the user’s old profile directory from profile_test.

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $userroot = 'fileserverprofile_test$'

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $currentADUsers = get-aduser -filter * | select samaccountname

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $oldADUsers = gci $userroot | % basename

At this point, I have two lists of profile directory names:

• $oldADUsers

• $currentADUsers

<p class="crayon-selected">where the individual entries in the $oldADUsers list have an extension of .V2, whereas the entries in the $currentADUsers list have no extensions.</p>
*****

What I believe I need to do:

1. Remove the extensions from the directory names in $oldADUsers,
2. compare the directory names to those in $currentADUsers,
3. take ownership of the selected directory and
4. perform the recursive delete.

I believe I will need a for-loop similar to:

Foreach-Object {$_.Name -replace ".(V2)",""}

…but that won’t work, because I can’t replace with a null value.

I am stuck here.

Following is the code which I have used to get this far…..

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $userroot = 'fileserverprofile_old$'

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $currentADUsers = get-aduser -filter * | select samaccountname

PS C:WINDOWSsystem32> $oldADUsers =gci $userroot | % basename

I have tried separating the values in the $oldADUsers list:

$oldadv = $oldADUsers.split(".")

…but then I have array indices to worry about, which I think only makes things more complicated than they need to be.

I have tried the following, but it will break on other lists:

PS C:> $newADName = $oldADName.split(".")

PS C:> $ADNamesingle = $newADName[0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40]

PS C:> write $ADNamesingle

...

AfsgrA
afsgrb
afsgrC
AfsGrD
afsgre
afsgrf
afsgrg
afsgrh
afstelgte

...

OTHER CODE WHICH I'VE USED in this script WITHOUT SUCCESS:

$cool = gci $userroot | ?{$_.PSIsContainer -and ($_.Name -remove '.(V2|V5|V6)$','')} ===> problem: -remove not recognised.
$cool = gci $userroot | ?{$_.PSIsContainer -and ($_.Name -replace ".(V2|V5|V6)","")} ===> does not remove extension.

$Files = $oldadv
ForEach ($File in $Files)
{
$File.FullName | Copy-Item -Destination ("Drive:Path" + ($File.Name -replace '(.V2)','') )
}

Compare-Object -ReferenceObject (Get-Content -Path 'C:jctempmyusers.txt') -DifferenceObject (Get-Content -Path 'C:jctempoldadname.txt')

get-childitem 'wffs02profile_testjc' -include *.V2 | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.name}

foreach-object in c:jctempmyusers.txt [io.path]::GetFileNameWithoutExtension("c:jctempmyusers.txt")

foreach ($file in gci -literalpath "C:Temp") { rni $file.FullName $file.Name.Replace("A","B") }

foreach ($file in gci -literalpath "wffs02profile_testjc$") { rni $file.FullName $file.Name.Replace("V2","Shit") -credential $credentials }

I need help.

Thank you in advance to any of you out there who take a look at this.

I wish you all a nice start into your week.

Best regards,

-.-johnc