Utility for notifying a user that their roaming profile is getting too large to copy before shutdown?

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Published on 2012-09-30T16:27:11Z Indexed on 2012/09/30 21:39 UTC
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My users are having an issue with their roaming profiles getting too large and then their roaming profile is lost. I believe this is because this is because they are storing too much in their roaming profiles. Is there a program that can be installed in Windows, that will:

Listen for a logoff event
Check the size of their Roaming Profile against a size limit I set...
If the roaming profile is too big, it will notify the user that they have to decrease the size of the profile.

Does a program like this exist or does it need to written?

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