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PowerShell Basics: How to Delete Microsoft Teams Cache for All Users

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AnthonyBartolo
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Jul 14, 2020
Sometimes there is a need to delete Microsoft Teams cache to quicken the adoption of an in-band policy change or simply troubleshoot an issue. The challenge here is that the cache for Microsoft Teams...
Updated May 04, 2021
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Anthony Bartolo
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px091
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Jun 07, 2022
 
Hello, Based on this discussion and people's input, I have come up with the following code. The initial testing works fine on my laptop. I am planning to run this script to all machines in my company. Is there anything can cause this script fail to clear teams cache? Thanks in advance,
 

# stop Teams

Stop-Process -Name Teams;    

#stop Outlook

Stop-Process -Name Outlook;

#wait for 5 second until Teams and Outlook closed

Start-Sleep -Seconds 5

#clear teams cache

Remove-Item -Path $HOME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\* -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction Continue