Roaming Profile Cookies

[Olly1234]

Hi Guys - I've been thinking about how to setup a scheduled service on the File and print server that would run weekly or monthly and could say look on e:\profiles\xxxx\cookies (where xxxx is the 4 letter userid) and delete all the cookies with last access date older than 14 days for each profile beings cookies build up and slow login times down a lot when there are 2000 cookies in a profile to download. I don't want to have to have to script each userid in beings we have around 1400 employees and I want to run it on around 35 F+P's, does anyone know an easy method as currently i'm working on the principle that i'm going to need to read each userid into a env variable and then loop using somthing like xset then delete cookies older than 14, any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[TheAnimus]

you could do this sort of maintance as a log on script?

[Olly1234]

Thats a good idea, it didn't cross my mind to delete them locally so that it'd then write back, was just thinking scheduled service, wood for trees type thing. The only stickin point is that I don't think the command shell comes with the functionality to delete a file with a x amount since last access that I could script?

[Paul Adams]

A similar VBScript is here:
VBScript example

This particular one is set to move files older than 8 days, but it could easily be modified to delete files older than 14 days.

MSDN Article on System.IO.File.Delete

I would configure this to run as part of a client logon script rather than a server-side one, as a domain user logon will only succeed if the client clock is correct (within ~5 minutes) - so you don't run the risk of accidentally blitzing every cookie of every user because of a system clock error on a server.