Rename folder using wildcard windows

I have determined the cause of this problem, thanks to good ol' ProcMon. As the shares were being enumerated, ProcMon was revealing an "ACCESS DENIED" on the attempt to open/query the shares that were failing, but "SUCCESS" on those that worked.

The account used to ssh into the subject server did not have read permissions to the shares in question. Granting the account read permissions to the share(s) resolved the subject behavior.

We used a combination of a powershell script and a policy. The policy specifies that the user must create a folder inside the Drop_Zone share and then copy whatever files they want into that folder. When the folder gets to be 7 days old (using CreationTime) the powershell script will delete it.

I also added some logging to the powershell script so we could verify it's operation and turned on shadow copies just to save the completely inept from themselves.

Here is the script without all the logging stuff.

$location = Get-ChildItem \\foo.bar\Drop_Zone
$date = Get-Date
foreach ($item in $location) {
  # Check to see if this is the readme folder
  if($item.PsIsContainer -and $item.Name -ne '_ReadMe') {
    $itemAge = ((Get-Date) - $item.CreationTime).Days
    if($itemAge -gt 7) {
      Remove-Item $item.FullName -recurse -force
    }
  }
  else {
  # must be a file
  # you can check age and delete based on that or just delete regardless
  # because they didn't follow the policy
  }
}