Powershell Log Off Remote Session

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I am trying to formulate a Powershell command to remotely log off a user  We have a terminal server with a very unstable program that sometimes locks sessions  We have to remotely log off a user but I m trying to write a Powershell statement that will log off the person who ran the script  I Googled around  and found this command   Invoke-Command -ComputerName MyServer -Command  shutdown -l    However  the command returns  incorrect function   I can run other commands successfully in the brackets  such as Get-Process   The idea is for me to put that into a script that users can run to log themselves off of the server  since when it locks  they cannot access the start menu or ALT CTRL END to do it through the GUI    The flow would be this  Bob logs into MyServer via RDP but his session freezes  On his local desktop  he can run MyScript  containing a command similar to above  which will log off his session on MyServer

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here is what i came up with  combining multiple answers  computer list below  computers      computer1 domain local    computer2 domain local       foreach   Computer in  computers      Invoke-Command -ComputerName  Computer -ScriptBlock      Write-Host            Env Computername    usertocheck    SomeUserName   sessionID     quser   Where-Object      -match  usertocheck    -split       2     If  string   IsNullOrEmpty  sessionID                    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow   quot User Not Found  quot               else                   write-host -ForegroundColor Green   Logging off    usertocheck  Session ID   sessionID     logoff  sessionID

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I am sure my code will be easier and works faster        logon sessions   get-process -includeusername   Select-Object -Unique -Property UserName  si          -match  server  -and    -notmatch  admin         foreach   id in  logon sessions si            logoff  id

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I ve modified Casey s answer to only logoff disconnected sessions by doing the following      foreach  Server in  Servers        try           query user  server  Server 2 gt  amp 1   select -skip 1          -split   s    -5  -eq  Disc        logoff     -split   s    -6   server  Server  V            catch

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You can use Invoke-RDUserLogoff  An example logging off Active Directory users of a specific Organizational Unit    users   Get-ADUser -filter   -SearchBase  ou YOUR OU NAME dc contoso dc com   Get-RDUserSession   where    users sAMAccountName -contains    UserName              Invoke-RDUserLogoff -Force     At the end of the pipe  if you try to use only foreach      it will log off only one user  But using this combination of foreach and pipe                 command     will work as expected   Ps  Run as Adm

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Here s a great scripted solution for logging people out remotely or locally  I m using qwinsta to get session information and building an array out of the given output  This makes it really easy to iterate through each entry and log out only the actual users  and not the system or RDP listener itself which usually just throws an access denied error anyway    serverName    Name of server here OR localhost   sessions   qwinsta  server  serverName        -notmatch    SESSIONNAME          item        Select  Active    SessionName    Username    Id    State    Type    Device   item Active      Substring 0 1  -match   gt    item SessionName      Substring 1 18  Trim    item Username      Substring 19 20  Trim    item Id      Substring 39 9  Trim    item State      Substring 48 8  Trim    item Type      Substring 56 12  Trim    item Device      Substring 68  Trim    item     foreach   session in  sessions       if   session Username -ne    -or  session Username Length -gt 1           logoff  server  serverName  session Id           In the first line of this script give  serverName the appropriate value or localhost if running locally  I use this script to kick users before an automated process attempts to move some folders around  Prevents  file in use  errors for me  Another note  this script will have to be ran as an administrator user otherwise you can get accessed denied trying to log someone out  Hope this helps

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This is oldschool and predates PowerShell  but I have used the qwinsta   rwinsta combo for YEARS to remotely log off stale RDP sessions  It s built in on at least Windows XP and forward  possibly earlier   Determine the session ID   qwinsta  SERVER  lt NAME gt    Remove the session in question   rwinsta  lt SESSION ID gt   SERVER  lt NAME gt

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Log off all users from a machine   try      query user  server  SERVER 2 gt  amp 1   select -skip 1   foreach        logoff     -split   s    -6   server  SERVER        catch      Details    the try catch is used when there are no users are on the server  and the query returns an error  however  you could drop the 2 gt  amp 1 part  and remove the try catch if you don t mind seeing the error string select -skip 1 removes the header line the inner foreach logs off each user     -split   s    splits the string to an array with just text items  -6  index gets session ID and is the 6th string counting from the reverse of the array  you need to do this because the query output will have either 8 or 9 elements depending if the users connected or disconnected from the terminal session

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Perhaps surprisingly you can logoff users with the logoff command   C   gt  logoff    Terminates a session   LOGOFF  sessionname   sessionid    SERVER servername    V    VM     sessionname         The name of the session    sessionid           The ID of the session     SERVER servername  Specifies the Remote Desktop server containing the user                       session to log off  default is current      V                  Displays information about the actions performed     VM                 Logs off a session on server or within virtual machine                        The unique ID of the session needs to be specified   The session ID can be determined with the qwinsta  query session  or quser  query user  commands  see here     server      MyServer   username    env USERNAME   session     quser  server  server          -match  username    -split       2   logoff  session  server  server

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Adding plain DOS commands  if someone is so inclined   Yes  this still works for Win 8 and Server 2008   Server 2012   Query session  server Server100   Will return   SESSIONNAME       USERNAME                 ID  STATE   TYPE        DEVICE rdp-tcp 0         Bob                       3  Active  rdpwd rdp-tcp 5         Jim                       9  Active  rdpwd rdp-tcp                                 65536  Listen   And to log off a session  use   Reset session 3  server Server100

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Try the Terminal Services PowerShell Module   Get-TSSession -ComputerName comp1 -UserName user1   Stop-TSSession -Force

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Below script will work well for both active and disconnected sessions as long as user has access to run logoff command remotely  All you have to do is change the servername from  YourServerName  on 4th line   param        queryResults    null       string  UserName    env USERNAME       string  ServerName    YourServerName      if  Test-Connection  ServerName -Count 1 -Quiet          Write-Host   n n n ServerName is online   -BackgroundColor Green -ForegroundColor Black       Write-Host    nQuerying Server     ServerName   for disconnected sessions under UserName         UserName ToUpper              -BackgroundColor Gray -ForegroundColor Black          query user  UserName  server  ServerName 2 gt  amp 1   foreach                  if     -match  Active                     Write-Host  Active Sessions                   queryResults      n ServerName          trim   -replace    2              ConvertFrom-Csv -Delimiter     -Header  ServerName   UserName   SessionName   SessionID   CurrentState   IdealTime   LogonTime                     queryResults   ft                 Write-Host  Starting logoff procedure     -BackgroundColor Gray -ForegroundColor Black                   queryResults   foreach                        Sessionl      SessionID                      Serverl      ServerName                     Write-Host  Logging off    username from  serverl     -ForegroundColor black -BackgroundColor Gray                     sleep 2                     logoff  Sessionl  server  Serverl  v                                                                elseif     -match  Disc                     Write-Host  Disconnected Sessions                   queryResults      n ServerName          trim   -replace    2               ConvertFrom-Csv -Delimiter     -Header  ServerName   UserName   SessionID   CurrentState   IdealTime   LogonTime                    queryResults   ft                 Write-Host  Starting logoff procedure     -BackgroundColor Gray -ForegroundColor Black                   queryResults   foreach                        Sessionl      SessionID                      Serverl      ServerName                     Write-Host  Logging off    username from  serverl                         sleep 2                     logoff  Sessionl  server  Serverl  v                                              elseif     -match  The RPC server is unavailable                      Write-Host  Unable to query the  ServerName  check for firewall settings on  ServerName   -ForegroundColor White -BackgroundColor Red                           elseif     -match  No User exists for    Write-Host  No user session exists            else        Write-Host   n n n ServerName is Offline   -BackgroundColor red -ForegroundColor white     Write-Host  Error  Unable to connect to  ServerName   -BackgroundColor red -ForegroundColor white     Write-Host  Either the  ServerName is down or check for firewall settings on server  ServerName   -BackgroundColor Yellow -ForegroundColor black        Read-Host   n nScript execution finished  press enter to exit     Some sample outputs  For active session    For disconnected sessions    if no sessions found   Check out this solution as well to query all AD servers for your username and logoff only disconnected sessions  The script will also tell you if there were error connecting or querying the server   Powershell to find out disconnected RDP session and log off at the same time

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