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1. Teams Windows client greatly increases roaming profile size (Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams)

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   on the backlog  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded

   Thank you for your feedback! This is our on backlog, we will share an update as soon as one is available.

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   Joachim Emde commented  ·  November 09, 2020  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   Yes, the Teams programers do not know anything about enterprise installations of Windows.
   Here is a skript which moves some directories out of the profile and cleans some things.

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   #
   # Removes unnecessary files in the local profile, moves them to the user's home directory and
   # creates symbolic links instead
   #

   # Set-PSDebug -Trace 2

   cd $env:userprofile

   # Moves the $source directory from the profile directly to the user's home directory
   function MoveDir([String] $Quelle,[String] $Ziel) {
   if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:userprofile\$Quelle")) {
   if (-not ((get-item "$Quelle").Attributes -band [IO.FileAttributes]::ReparsePoint)) {
   Move-Item "$Quelle" "$env:homeshare\$Ziel" -Force
   # Sometimes empty directories are left behind
   Get-Item "$Quelle" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   }
   }
   if ([System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:homeshare\$Ziel")) {
   if (-not ((get-item "$quelle").Attributes -band [IO.FileAttributes]::ReparsePoint)) {
   New-Item -Path "$quelle" -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value "$env:homeshare\$Ziel"
   }
   }
   }

   # Create the Microsoft directory if it does not already exist
   if (-not [System.IO.Directory]::Exists("$env:homeshare\Microsoft")) {
   New-Item -Path "$env:homeshare\Microsoft" -ItemType directory
   }

   # Remove directories from the profiles
   MoveDir ".swt" ".swt"
   MoveDir ".zenmap" ".zenmap"
   MoveDir "3D Objects" "3D Objects"
   MoveDir "Evernote" "Evernote"
   MoveDir "MicrosoftEdgeBackups" "MicrosoftEdgeBackups"
   MoveDir "AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams" "Microsoft\Teams"
   MoveDir "AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates" "Microsoft\Templates"
   MoveDir "AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows" "Microsoft\Windows"
   MoveDir "AppData\Roaming\Mozilla" "Mozilla"

   # Are generated incorrectly every now and then
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Cookies" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Contacts" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Desktop" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Documents" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Downloads" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Favorites" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Links" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Music" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Pictures" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Saved Games" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Searches" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse
   Get-Item "$env:userprofile\Videos" | Remove-Item -Force -Recurse

   # Remove temporary registry backup files
   Get-Item "*.tmp" -Force | Where CreationTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-45) | Remove-Item -Force

   # Remove Intel log files
   Get-Item "Intel\Logs\*.log" | Remove-Item -Force

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   You also have to allow users to create symbolic links. Search for "allow user to create symbolic link gpo".

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