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Hello fellow spiceworkers,

I need to run the disk cleaning tool from Windows 100% automatic on my servers.I know that there is the possibilty to add this as a task in Task scheduler but the problem is there are 60 servers on which I want to configure this. Therefore I need a solution to push this setting globally to all the servers. Is this perhaps possible via MSSC or a command line? And if so, how would I need to do it.

The OS on all servers is either ws2012 or ws2012 r2

Regards

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Hello

Use Group Policy and use Computer Configuration - Prefrences - Control Panel Settings - Scheduled Tasks and put what you want in there

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Alternatively you can script it in powershell and then push the script using group policy:

Write-Verbose ‘Clearing CleanMgr.exe automation settings.’ Get-ItemProperty -Path ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches*’ -Name StateFlags0001 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Remove-ItemProperty -Name StateFlags0001 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Write-Verbose ‘Enabling Update Cleanup. This is done automatically in via a scheduled task in Windows 10.’ New-ItemProperty -Path ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Update Cleanup’ -Name StateFlags0001 -Value 2 -PropertyType DWord Write-Verbose ‘Enabling Temporary Files Cleanup.’ New-ItemProperty -Path ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Temporary Files’ -Name StateFlags0001 -Value 2 -PropertyType DWord Write-Verbose ‘Starting CleanMgr.exe…’ Start-Process -FilePath CleanMgr.exe -ArgumentList ‘/sagerun:1’ -WindowStyle Hidden -Wait Write-Verbose ‘Waiting for CleanMgr and DismHost processes. Second wait neccesary as CleanMgr.exe spins off separate processes.’ Get-Process -Name cleanmgr,dismhost -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Wait-Process $UpdateCleanupSuccessful = $false if (Test-Path $env:SystemRoot\Logs\CBS\DeepClean.log) { $UpdateCleanupSuccessful = Select-String -Path $env:SystemRoot\Logs\CBS\DeepClean.log -Pattern ‘Total size of superseded packages:’ -Quiet } if ($UpdateCleanupSuccessful) { Write-Verbose ‘Rebooting to complete CleanMgr.exe Update Cleanup…’ SHUTDOWN.EXE /r /f /t 0 /c ‘Rebooting to complete CleanMgr.exe Update Cleanup…’ }

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see if this article helps as well:

good luck

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Thanks you all.

Finally I used the solution which Philip told me. It worked like a charm.

James I haven’t tried your solution but im sure it would’ve helped thanks alot!

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No problem, glad we can help

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May the force be with you