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Cleanup up the Microsoft Teams Cache Path on Windows
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| # Stop Teams process | |
| $paramGetProcess = @{ | |
| Name = 'Teams' | |
| ErrorAction = 'SilentlyContinue' | |
| } | |
| $paramStopProcess = @{ | |
| Force = $true | |
| Confirm = $false | |
| ErrorAction = 'SilentlyContinue' | |
| WarningAction = 'SilentlyContinue' | |
| } | |
| $null = (Get-Process @paramGetProcess | Stop-Process @paramStopProcess) | |
| # Calm down | |
| Start-Sleep -Seconds 3 | |
| # Try again | |
| $null = (Get-Process @paramGetProcess | Stop-Process @paramStopProcess) | |
| # Cleanup | |
| $paramGetProcess = $null | |
| $paramStopProcess = $null | |
| # Calm down, again | |
| Start-Sleep -Seconds 2 | |
| # List of possible cache locations | |
| $AllTeamsCachePath = @( | |
| "$env:APPDATA\Microsoft\Teams" | |
| "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe" | |
| ) | |
| # Loop over our list of Catch path values | |
| foreach ($TeamsCachePath in $AllTeamsCachePath) | |
| { | |
| # Does the path exist? | |
| if (Test-Path -Path $TeamsCachePath -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) | |
| { | |
| # Delete the content | |
| $null = (Get-ChildItem -Path $TeamsCachePath -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -WarningAction SilentlyContinue) | |
| } | |
| } |
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