Powershell script to see currently logged in users (domain and machine) + status (active, idle, away)

I am searching for a simple command to see logged on users on server. I know this one :

Get-WmiObject -Class win32_computersystem

but this will not provide me the info I need. It returns : domain Manufactureer Model Name (Machine name) PrimaryOwnerName TotalPhysicalMemory

I run Powershell 3.0 on a Windows 2012 server.

Also

Get-WmiObject Win32_LoggedOnUser -ComputerName $Computer | Select Antecedent -Unique

gives me not the exact answers I need. I would love to see as well the idle time, or if they are active or away.

In search of this same solution, I found what I needed under a different question in stackoverflow: Powershell-log-off-remote-session. The below one line will return a list of logged on users.

query user /server:$SERVER

There's no "simple command" to do that. You can write a function, or take your choice of several that are available online in various code repositories. I use this:

function get-loggedonuser ($computername){

#mjolinor 3/17/10

$regexa = '.+Domain="(.+)",Name="(.+)"$'
$regexd = '.+LogonId="(\d+)"$'

$logontype = @{
"0"="Local System"
"2"="Interactive" #(Local logon)
"3"="Network" # (Remote logon)
"4"="Batch" # (Scheduled task)
"5"="Service" # (Service account logon)
"7"="Unlock" #(Screen saver)
"8"="NetworkCleartext" # (Cleartext network logon)
"9"="NewCredentials" #(RunAs using alternate credentials)
"10"="RemoteInteractive" #(RDP\TS\RemoteAssistance)
"11"="CachedInteractive" #(Local w\cached credentials)
}

$logon_sessions = @(gwmi win32_logonsession -ComputerName $computername)
$logon_users = @(gwmi win32_loggedonuser -ComputerName $computername)

$session_user = @{}

$logon_users |% {
$_.antecedent -match $regexa > $nul
$username = $matches[1] + "\" + $matches[2]
$_.dependent -match $regexd > $nul
$session = $matches[1]
$session_user[$session] += $username
}


$logon_sessions |%{
$starttime = [management.managementdatetimeconverter]::todatetime($_.starttime)

$loggedonuser = New-Object -TypeName psobject
$loggedonuser | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Session" -Value $_.logonid
$loggedonuser | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "User" -Value $session_user[$_.logonid]
$loggedonuser | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Type" -Value $logontype[$_.logontype.tostring()]
$loggedonuser | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Auth" -Value $_.authenticationpackage
$loggedonuser | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "StartTime" -Value $starttime

$loggedonuser
}

}

Since we're in the PowerShell area, it's extra useful if we can return a proper PowerShell object ...

I personally like this method of parsing, for the terseness:

((quser) -replace '^>', '') -replace '\s{2,}', ',' | ConvertFrom-Csv

Note: this doesn't account for disconnected ("disc") users, but works well if you just want to get a quick list of users and don't care about the rest of the information. I just wanted a list and didn't care if they were currently disconnected.

If you do care about the rest of the data it's just a little more complex:

(((quser) -replace '^>', '') -replace '\s{2,}', ',').Trim() | ForEach-Object {
    if ($_.Split(',').Count -eq 5) {
        Write-Output ($_ -replace '(^[^,]+)', '$1,')
    } else {
        Write-Output $_
    }
} | ConvertFrom-Csv

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I take it a step farther and give you a very clean object on my blog.

I ended up making this into a module.

Maybe you can do something with

get-process -includeusername

If you want to find interactively logged on users, I found a great tip here :<https://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/get-logged-on-users/> (Win32_ComputerSystem did not help me)

$explorerprocesses = @(Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name='explorer.exe'" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
If ($explorerprocesses.Count -eq 0)
{
    "No explorer process found / Nobody interactively logged on"
}
Else
{
    ForEach ($i in $explorerprocesses)
    {
        $Username = $i.GetOwner().User
        $Domain = $i.GetOwner().Domain
        Write-Host "$Domain\$Username logged on since: $($i.ConvertToDateTime($i.CreationDate))"
    }
}

Here is my Approach based on DarKalimHero's Suggestion by selecting only on Explorer.exe processes

Function Get-RdpSessions 
{
    param(
        [string]$computername 
    )

    $processinfo = Get-WmiObject -Query "select * from win32_process where name='explorer.exe'" -ComputerName $computername

    $processinfo | ForEach-Object { $_.GetOwner().User } | Sort-Object -Unique | ForEach-Object { New-Object psobject -Property @{Computer=$computername;LoggedOn=$_} } | Select-Object Computer,LoggedOn
}

Another solution, also based on query user, but can handle variations in culture (as far as I can tell) and produces strongly-typed results (i.e. TimeSpan and DateTime values):

# Invoke "query user", it produces an output similar to this, but might be culture-dependant!
#
#  USERNAME              SESSIONNAME        ID  STATE   IDLE TIME  LOGON TIME
# >jantje                rdp-tcp#55          2  Active          .  3/29/2021 4:24 PM
#  pietje                                    4  Disc     49+01:01  4/14/2021 9:26 AM
$result = (&query 'user' | Out-String -Stream)

# Take the header text and insert a '|' before the start of every HEADER - although defined as inserting a bar after 
# every 2 or more spaces, or after the space at the start.
$fencedHeader = $result[0] -replace '(^\s|\s{2,})', '$1|'

# Now get the positions of all bars.
$fenceIndexes = ($fencedHeader | Select-String '\|' -AllMatches).Matches.Index

$timeSpanFormats = [string[]]@("d\+hh\:mm", "h\:mm", "m")
$entries = foreach($line in $result | Select-Object -Skip 1)
{
    # Insert bars on the same positions, and then split the line into separate parts using these bars.
    $fenceIndexes | ForEach-Object { $line = $line.Insert($_, "|") }
    $parts = $line -split '\|' | ForEach-Object { $_.Trim() }

    # Parse each part as a strongly typed value, using the UI Culture if needed.
    [PSCustomObject] @{
        IsCurrent   = ($parts[0] -eq '>');
        Username    = $parts[1];
        SessionName = $parts[2];
        Id          = [int]($parts[3]);
        State       = $parts[4];
        IdleTime    = $(if($parts[5] -ne '.') { [TimeSpan]::ParseExact($parts[5], $timeSpanFormats, [CultureInfo]::CurrentUICulture) } else { [TimeSpan]::Zero });
        LogonTime   = [DateTime]::ParseExact($parts[6], "g", [CultureInfo]::CurrentUICulture);
    }
}

# Yields the following result:
#
# IsCurrent Username SessionName Id State  IdleTime    LogonTime           
# --------- -------- ----------- -- -----  --------    ---------           
#      True jantje   rdp-tcp#32   2 Active 00:00:00    3/29/2021 4:24:00 PM
#     False pietje                4 Disc   48.11:06:00 4/14/2021 9:26:00 AM
$entries | Format-Table -AutoSize

Team!

I have pretty nice solution to get local session as [PSObject].

Function Get-LocalSession {
<#
    .DESCRIPTION
        Get local session. Pasre output of command - 'query session'.
#>
    [OutputType([PSObject[]])]
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param(
        
    )
    try {
        #region functions
        #endregion
        $Result = @()
        $Output = . query.exe 'session' | select-object -skip 1

        #use regex to parse
        $pattern = '^(?<This>.)(?<SessionName>[^\s]*)\s*(?<UserName>[a-z]\w*)?\s*(?<Id>[0-9]*)\s*(?<State>\w*)\s*((?<Type>\w*)\s*)?(?<Device>\w*)?'

        foreach ( $line in $output ){
            $match = [regex]::Matches( $line, $pattern )
            if ( $match ){
                $PSO = [PSCustomObject]@{
                    This        = $match[0].groups['This'].Value
                    SessionName = $match[0].groups['SessionName'].Value
                    UserName    = $match[0].groups['UserName'].Value
                    Id          = $match[0].groups['Id'].Value
                    State       = $match[0].groups['State'].Value
                    Type        = $match[0].groups['Type'].Value
                    Device      = $match[0].groups['Device'].Value
                }

                $Result += $PSO
            }
            Else {
                write-host "Unable to process line [$line] in function [Get-LocalSession]!"
            }
        }  
    }
    catch {
        #Get-ErrorReporting -Trap $PSItem
        write-host $PSItem
    }

    return $Result
}

#Run it

$SessionObject = Get-LocalSession
$SessionObject | format-table -autosize -property *

This is what I just figured out and works out great!

Get-Process -IncludeUserName | Select-Object -Unique | Where-Object {$_.UserName -notlike 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM' -and $_.UserName -notlike 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE' -and $_.UserName -notlike 'NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE'} | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize