Find user logged in with Powershell using WMI

[Sean J]

What is the best way of finding out the currently logged in user of a
particular machine?

If I were to write an expression to parse the name out of the value, but I also wanted to know the user who has logged in.

Is there anyone who can help me?

[switchblade327]

# Get-LoggedOnUser.ps1
# Get details of the computer

$computers = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem 

# Get Logged on User(s)

"Logged on user(s):"

foreach($computer in $computers) {

"User: {0}" -f $computer.UserName

}

This script produces the following output:

PS C:\foo> .Get-LoggedOnUser.ps1

Logged on user(s):
User: COOKHAM\tfl

[sergioKomic]

If both machines are in the same domain/workgroups, then

gwmi win32_process -computer "COMPUTER" -credential "DOMAIN\USER"

assuming domain\user is an administrator on the remote computer, then this should work.

[Grohu]

Provide a computer name and it will return the logged on users.

function Get-MyLoggedOnUsers
    {
     param([string]$Computer)
     Get-WmiObject Win32_LoggedOnUser -ComputerName $Computer | Select Antecedent -Unique | %{”{0}{1}” -f $_.Antecedent.ToString().Split(’”‘)[1], $_.Antecedent.ToString().Split(’”‘)[3]}
    }