PowerShell to Get local user membership remotely

Question

Need some help here.

I need to get the local user list of a remote computer and what group they belong to using PowerShell script.

I tried:

Get-LocalUser
Get-LocalGroup
Get-LocalGroupMember

Also:

gwmi win32_UserAccount
gwmi win32_group

but it is very slow and pulling the information more than requirement which consumes time.

I would like the output formatted something like below:

User     Memberof
------   --------------------
abc12    Administrators
efg23    remote desktop users
hij45    Administrators,Backup Operators,users
xyz56    remote desktop users,Backup Operators

Thanks in Advance, Cheers.

The nice thing about PowerShell is that you can send any command that does local work over using `Invoke-Command` (assuming you've set up PowerShell remoting, of course). Including `Get-LocalUser`. — Jeroen Mostert, Apr 06 '18 at 14:08

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '18 at 19:38

I use ADSI and it's pretty quick.

$RemoteComputerName = 'RemoteComputer'
$LocalGroup = 'Remote Desktop Users'

$ADSI = [ADSI]("WinNT://$RemoteComputerName,Computer")
$Group = $ADSI.PSBase.Children.Find($LocalGroup,'Group')
$Group.PSBase.Invoke('Members').Foreach{ $_.GetType().InvokeMember('Name','GetProperty',$null,$_,$null) }

PowerShell to Get local user membership remotely

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