{"id":4908,"date":"2016-02-17T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2016-02-17T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:08:10","slug":"get-local-group-members-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/4908\/get-local-group-members-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Local Group Members with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I posted a function to get information about local user accounts<\/a>. I received a lot of positive feedback so it seemed natural to take this the next step and create a similar function to enumerate or list members of a local group, such as Administrators.<\/p>\n

The function, Get-LocalGroupMember, also relies on ADSI and is similar to my local user function so I won't repeat the details.\u00a0 Since I assume most of the time the only local group that matters is Administrators I made that the default.\u00a0 I also set the computer default to the local host. But it is simple enough to query another computer.<\/p>\n

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You can pipe in computer names and use the object properties to do additional filtering, sorting or grouping.<\/p>\n

\"chi-fp02\",\"chi-core01\",\"chi-hvr1\",\"chi-hvr2\",\"chi-web02\" | \r\nget-localgroupmember |\r\nwhere {$_.IsLocal -AND $_.name -ne 'Administrator'} |\r\nSelect Computername,Class,Name<\/pre>\n
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In this example I wanted to search a group of computers and identify local members of Administrators that were not the Administrator account.<\/p>\n
As with my previous function, I think you'll find it better to use PowerShell remoting if you plan on querying multiple remote servers or need to use alternate credentials. You can read function help for more details.<\/p>\n
You can always find the most current version of the function in my Github library.<\/p>\n