Clearing cache during OSD?

[joeman1881]

Anyone know of the best method for clearing cache on a machine mid-OSD? I have a lab of machines I would like to deploy OS and some large apps (IE: CAD, Adobe CS, etc.), but don't have a ton of disk space, and would rather not clear post deployment.

 

Thanks in advance!

[thadkew]

Do you mean you want to clear out the temp directory?

We have a step in our task sequence that removes and recreates the c:\temp folder (others as well) and cleans out the windows\temp folder.

 

Just add a group called Cleanup
in it, put a few Run Command Line steps with their commands:

(For Cleanup c:\temp) cmd /c rd /s /q c:\temp

(For Create c:\temp directory) cmd /c md c:\temp

(For Cleanup c:\windows\temp) cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\temp\*.*

(For Cleanup c:\perflogs) cmd /c del /f /q c:\perflogs*.*

(For Cleanup Windows Update directories) cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\softwaredistribution\datastore\*.* & cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\softwaredistribution\download\*.*

(For Cleanup ConfigMgr logs) cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\ccm\logs\*.*

(For Cleanup Event Logs) powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command "& {wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {write-host "Clearing $_"; wevtutil cl "$_"}}"

[joeman1881]

Do you mean you want to clear out the temp directory?

We have a step in our task sequence that removes and recreates the c:\temp folder (others as well) and cleans out the windows\temp folder.

 

Just add a group called Cleanup

in it, put a few Run Command Line steps with their commands:

(For Cleanup c:\temp) cmd /c rd /s /q c:\temp

(For Create c:\temp directory) cmd /c md c:\temp

(For Cleanup c:\windows\temp) cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\temp\*.*

(For Cleanup c:\perflogs) cmd /c del /f /q c:\perflogs*.*

(For Cleanup Windows Update directories) cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\softwaredistribution\datastore\*.* & cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\softwaredistribution\download\*.*

(For Cleanup ConfigMgr logs) cmd /c del /f /q c:\windows\ccm\logs\*.*

(For Cleanup Event Logs) powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command "& {wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {write-host "Clearing $_"; wevtutil cl "$_"}}"

 

 

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it! I think these commands will come in handy going forward. We probably should be cleaning things up for all deployments whether space is an issue or not.

[anyweb]

you might want to consider adding a delay of a week or so to the cleanup of some folders, for example C:\Windows\Temp as many applications logs are logged to their or the appdata\local\temp equivalent, so troubleshooting failed installs of apps might be a challenge if the logs are deleted,

 

just a thought

[joeman1881]

you might want to consider adding a delay of a week or so to the cleanup of some folders, for example C:\Windows\Temp as many applications logs are logged to their or the appdata\local\temp equivalent, so troubleshooting failed installs of apps might be a challenge if the logs are deleted,

 

just a thought

 

I just saw this reply, but that's actually a good thought, because I do reference those logs fairly often. Thanks for the reply!