powershell - list local users and their groups

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I d like to have a report with all the local users and their relative groups  users  power users  administrators and so on   I get the users in this way    adsi    ADSI  WinNT       adsi psbase children   where     psbase schemaClassName -match  user     select   n  Name  e     name     but I don t know how to retrieve their groups  Thanks in advance

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Update as an alternative to the excellent answer from 2010   You can now use the Get-LocalGroupMember  Get-LocalGroup  Get-LocalUser etc  to get and map users and groups  Example   PS C  WINDOWS system32 gt  Get-LocalGroupMember -name users  ObjectClass Name                             PrincipalSource  ----------- ----                             ---------------  User        DESKTOP-R05QDNL someUser1        Local            User        DESKTOP-R05QDNL someUser2        MicrosoftAccount Group       NT AUTHORITY INTERACTIVE         Unknown     You could combine that with Get-LocalUser  Alias glu can also be used instead  Aliases exists for the majority of the new cmndlets   In case some are wondering  I know you didn t ask about this  Adding users could be for example done like so    description    Netshare user   userName    Test User   user    test user   pwd    pwd123   New-LocalUser  user -Password  ConvertTo-SecureString  pwd -AsPlainText -Force  -FullName  userName -Description  description

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adsi    ADSI  WinNT    env COMPUTERNAME   adsi Children   where     SchemaClassName -eq  user     Foreach-Object        groups      Groups     Foreach-Object     GetType   InvokeMember  Name    GetProperty    null       null            Select-Object   n  UserName  e     Name     n  Groups  e   groups -join

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try this one      Get-LocalGroup       groups      Get-LocalGroupMember -Group    Name         Name     Out-String    Write-Output       Name  gt  r n   groups  r n

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Use this to get an array with the local users and the groups they are member of   Get-LocalUser        ForEach-Object             user              return  PSCustomObject                  User       user Name              Groups    Get-LocalGroup   Where-Object     user SID -in       Get-LocalGroupMember   Select-Object -ExpandProperty  SID       Select-Object -ExpandProperty  Name                     To get an array with the local groups and their members   Get-LocalGroup        ForEach-Object            group              return  PSCustomObject                  Group       group Name              Members     group   Get-LocalGroupMember   Select-Object -ExpandProperty  Name

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Expanding on mjswensen s answer  the command without the filter could take minutes  but the filtered command is almost instant   PowerShell - List local user accounts  Fast way  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 UserAccount -Filter   LocalAccount  True     select name  fullname   Slow way  Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 UserAccount        localaccount -eq  true    select name  fullname

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For Googlers  another way to get a list of users is to use   Get-WmiObject -Class Win32 UserAccount   From http   buckeyejeeps com blog  p 764

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