Use Powershell to analyze your Windows Profiles

PowerShell is the proverbial management Swiss army knife CMDline-style ( that’s because process explorer is my GUI Swiss army knife). Anyway, this article shows you how you can examine windows profiles using PowerShell. Cool stuff!

This is a powershell script to scan roaming profiles and generate a report with some important data. Because it’s a simple script, everybody is able to adjust this script to generate more data.

My script scans a profile share and automatically sends the data to an excel file. The data are summarized in the sheet “Summary” and contain the following positions:

Overview

• Count of read profiles
  • Resolved and unresolved user account SID of the profile (it’s a good way to identify orphaned profiles)

General statistic information

• Profile size average
• Profile size min and max size
• Profile file count average
• Profile file min and max count
• Size of ntuser.dat average
• Size of ntuser.dat min and max

Important user data

• Dictionary count and size, e.g. from Winword & Co
• Count of saved passwords from Internet Explorer (best guess)
• Count of cookies from Internet Explorer
• Documents count and size (regular expression for file appendix like .doc)
• PST file count and size
• URL links
• Everybody can expand the script for further data

Some charts about:

• Range of profile sizes
• Range of last save to the profiles
• And more (if data exist in the user’s registry: last used language, Windows build)

Source: http://www.sepago.de/e/marcel/2011/02/10/migrating-windows-what-data-contains-your-roaming-profiles-ndash-use-powershell-to-analyze-profile-shares

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