Remove-Folder for Current Logged in User?

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Hello, I’m trying to get this PowerShell script below, into PSAD…

Get-Process -ProcessName Teams | Stop-Process -Force
Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\application cache\cache" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\blob_storage" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\databases" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\cache" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\gpucache" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\Indexeddb" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\Local Storage" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false
Get-ChildItem -Path $env:APPDATA\"Microsoft\teams\tmp" | Remove-Item -Confirm:$false

I’ve tried using:

 Remove-Folder -Path "$env:APPDATA\Microsoft\teams\application cache\cache"

But since it’s running as system I get:

[Installation] :: Folder [C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\teams\application cache\cache] does not exists…

Basically what I’m trying to accomplish is:

Close Teams (I have that worked by using: Show-InstallationWelcome -CloseApps ‘Teams’ -Silent -CheckDiskSpace)
Delete the files/folders under those locations (which are user locations)…

I just can’t seem to get it working… I was originally going to have PSAD call a separate powershell script but wanted the logging…

Any ideass?

Thank you.

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How are you deploying this? SCCM? If so, Since it’s Teams (which unfortunately resides in the user’s profile) you could call it as a per user deployment instead of a per-system.

If you want to run as it system, you’ll need to enumerate all profiles. This post has a good example that you should be able to leverage.
https://discourse.psappdeploytoolkit.com/t/copy-file-to-all-users-currently-logged-in-and-for-all-future-users/585/2

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You probably just want to clear Teams cache?

Try this:

$loggedonUser = Get-LoggedOnUser | select -ExpandProperty UserName
$TeamsPath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine('C:\Users\', $loggedonUser,'Appdata', 'Roaming', 'Microsoft', 'Teams')

Remove-File -Path "$TeamsPath\Cache\*"

Remove-File is part of the toolkit. Same for Remove-Folder.
You’ll have to construct the other paths yourself.

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I’ll give this a try, thank you! I tried running under user but UAC prompts when it launches the toolkit.

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You cannot run Powershell scripts as a User in SCCM. It will always show a UAC Prompt. Except if you would disable it via GPO, but don’t do that!

Alternatively you could wrap that in a .BAT file and deploy the .BAT as a user. That would work.
But that’s really not necessary as PSADT is powerfull enough to handle user-centric tasks as well.

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Worked great. Thanks so much.

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Hi Walter

know i am not at Office but I created a code that could help you for every situation in if you want to do something as currentuser.

Tomorow I will Post it.

So here is the script:

$ProfilePaths = Get-UserProfiles | Select-Object -ExpandProperty 'ProfilePath' 
        foreach ($Profile in $ProfilePaths ){
                Remove-Folder -Path "$Profile\appdata\Local\Microsoft\Teams"
                Remove-RegistryKey -Key 'HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Teams'
              }

This allows you to delete the content for every account on the client, the special is that you can let sccm deploy it under system user.

I also generated a script for installation under currentuser:

$CurrentUser = Get-LoggedOnUser

then you can use for example

Execute-ProcessAsUser -UserName $CurrentUser.NTAccount -Path "%Software.exe%"