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Reputation: 353

Local Adminstrator groups in Powershell from remote system

I am trying to retrieve the list of Administrators from a system. Below is the script that I am using currently to retrieve from the local system.

Get-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators

This retrieves the result as expected. Now to retrieve the same result from a remote system, I explored invoke-command option and its able to connect to the remote system. The issue is I am unable to retrieve the details from older system which has powershell version older than 5.1 since Get-LocalGroupMember cmdlet is available only from 5.1. Kindly help to get the local administrator group details from a remote system which has PS version older than 5.1

Below is my current script.

 $AdminAccountName=Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server -ScriptBlock { Get-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators| where {$_.name -eq 'Domain\accountName'}|Select name}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1082

Answers (1)

Karolina Ochlik
Karolina Ochlik

Reputation: 938

For Powershell versions before 5.1 - you need to use net.exe command:

net localgroup Administrators

It will need some parsing, but the command is there.

This also works with Invoke-Command:

Invoke-Command ComputerName -ScriptBlock { net localgroup administrators }

Upvotes: 1

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