Bulk Project Delete

The Bulk Project Delete application was developed to be a command line .exe that allows the scripted deletion of projects from a Project Server 2007 installation. Useful for bulk project deletes required for retention compliance. Currently, the code requires a plain text file as input for project names.

BulkProjectDelete -url http[s]://PWAServer/pwa/ -inputfile path\filename [-deletewsssites] [-deletearchived] [-wait] [-verify]

- url pwaurl -- Specify the url for the PWA instance on which to delete sites. Required. - inputfile path -- Specify a text file listing projects to be deleted. Each project should be on a separate line. Required. - deletewsssites -- WSS sites related to the deleted projects will be deleted as well. Ignored if -deletearchived is used. - deletearchived -- The projects are deleted from the archive database. If not present, projects are deleted from the draft and published databases. To delete all versions of a project, run the command twice, once with this switch and once without. - keeplatest -- When deleting projects from the archive database, a project will not be deleted if it is the most recent version of that project. Ignored if -deletearchive is not used. - wait -- Execution will pause until Project Server processes each job. This switch can be used to minimize impact on a production server. - verify -- Command will not actually delete projects or WSS sites. Example: bulkprojectdelete -url https://server/pwa/ -file c:\temp\oldprojects.txt -deletewsssites