‘Disk cleanup logic’ traditionally follows manual intervention. Why would you want harder and manual? This article will present options to clean up system and non-system disks, by leveraging largest root folder, API’s and more. This is one step in the OS Addendum pack that needs explanation and can be tailored to applications where admins have regular manual cleanup actions.
Breakdown of Disk cleanup
Disk Free space
Check Software Distribution for ConfigMgr/SCCM/MECM client
Checking software distribution path was an item for discussion where the folder was larger than 3GB, stemming from customer and field engineers recommendations.
If ($DiskFreeSpace.FreeSpace -lt 15 )
{
# Audit Software Distribution
#==================================
If ( $SoftwareDistribution -lt “3000” )
{
Write-host “NO SME/SystemOwner/SysAdmin/Server Action required”
}
If ( $SoftwareDistribution -gt “3000” )
{
Write-host “SME/SystemOwner/SysAdmin/Server Action required, stopping Windows Update service, removing SoftwareDIstribution folder and restarting”
Get-Service -Name wuauserv | Stop-Service
Remove-Item -Path C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution -Recurse
Get-Service -Name wuauserv | Start-Service
Write-host “Windows Update wuauserv service restarted after SoftwareDistribution directory removed”
}
Cleanup Application log folders
The nice part of this is you can reuse this by changing the path and deletion actions to tailor to customer environment. The script comes in handy for VEEAM, SQL, IIS instances and log directory on multiple drives.
Sample report alert output
Documentation
CleanMgr https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/cleanmgr
Delete client cache the right way https://sccm-zone.com/deleting-the-sccm-cache-the-right-way-3c1de8dc4b48
MECM client cache cleanup PowerShell https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/configurationmanager/invoke-cmclientaction?view=sccm-ps
SCCM Client Cache cleanup https://rzander.azurewebsites.net/sccm-config-item-to-cleanup-ccmcache/
Stack Overflow disk cleanup https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28852786/automate-process-of-disk-cleanup-cleanmgr-exe-without-user-intervention
