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Published: **August 30, 2022 - 1:53 PM**

Good morning
I have a PowerShell command to delete user profiles except for admin accounts. However, after the task completes correctly and deletes all the specified profiles, there are errors related to "Remove-CimInstance access denied".
The package is this one:

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def install():
    run_powershell('Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted')
    run_powershell('$AccountsToKeep = @("admin","administrator","Public","default")')
    run_powershell("Get-CimInstance -Class Win32_UserProfile | Where-Object { $_.LocalPath.split('\')[-1] -notin $AccountsToKeep } | Remove-CimInstance")

Is there a way to convert this command to Python? Or can we eliminate PowerShell errors?

Published: **August 30, 2022 - 2:21 PM**

As it's written, the different PowerShell commands will be executed individually without preserving the context between them. So it won't work. You can try putting everything in a ps1 file.
Otherwise, the best solution would indeed be to rewrite it in Python; it will be much cleaner.
Regards,
Denis

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