{"id":4918,"date":"2016-02-18T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:52:20","slug":"get-local-group-members-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/4918\/get-local-group-members-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Local Group Members Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I posted an article<\/a> and function that used ADSI and PowerShell to list members of a local group. I had a few people report an unusual error that I couldn't replicate. During the course of troubleshooting, I made a few changes to the original function to at least better handle the mysterious error. Those changes were updated to GitHub and as version 1.5 of the function.<\/p>\n

But during testing and revising, I decided I might as well really improve this command and incorporate an option to use PowerShell remoting, without having to jump through all the hoops in the previous version.<\/p>\n

Version 2 of the function includes a few parameters for remoting. This meant defining a few parameter sets. I also turned the bulk of the ADSI code into a scriptblock which can by invoked normally using the & operator. Or run remotely with Invoke-Command<\/a>. One tricky thing with scriptblocks is being able to flip on Verbose output.\u00a0 My solution is to add a parameter to the scriptblock that essentially inherits the VerbosePreference of the local machine.<\/p>\n

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I also realized it might be helpful to include the group name in the results in case you want to export the information.<\/p>\n

You can still use the command without remoting, which assumes you can create a legacy connection to the computer.<\/p>\n

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But I think you'll find the remoting option better performing.<\/p>\n

\"chi-web02\",\"chi-core01\" | get-localgroupmember  -UseRemoting  | \r\nformat-table -GroupBy Computername -Property ADSPath,Name,Class<\/pre>\n
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You can also use alternate credentials and SSL, although I haven't tested using SSL or certificates since I don't have that setup on my network.<\/p>\n
Version 2 and later of the function can be found on Github<\/a>:<\/p>\n