We’ve received massive feedback on our tips dealing with user profile management, so we decided to add a couple of additional tips.
Typically, every time a user logs on to a system, locally or remote, a user profile is created. So over time, there can exist a lot of orphaned user profiles. If you’d like to manage user profiles (including deleting unwanted ones), make sure you ignore special user profiles that are used by the system. They can be identified by the property “Special”.
Here is a chunk of code that displays all regular user profiles in a grid view window and lets you select one:
$selected = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_UserProfile -Filter "Special=False" | Add-Member -MemberType ScriptProperty -Name UserName -Value { (New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($this.Sid)).Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount]).Value } -PassThru | Out-GridView -Title "Select User Profile" -OutputMode Single $selected
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