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Answered WMI Get logged in user (non-admin)

  • Friday, November 23, 2012 3:49 AM
     
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    I've got a vbs script that uses WMI to get a list of logged in users on a computer. It looks at the "GetOwner" property of all explorer.exe processes on the machine to get the logged in users. Here is the script:

    strComputer = "ComputerName"

dim objWMIService, objEnum, obj, outParams

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=Impersonate, authenticationLevel=PktPrivacy}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
set objEnum = objWMIService.execQuery("select __relpath from win32_process where caption = 'explorer.exe'")

If objEnum.Count then
	for each obj in objEnum
		set outParams = obj.ExecMethod_("GetOwner")
		currentUser = Trim(outParams.User)
	next
End If

    If a user isn't an admin user they can't access the "GetOwner" property of the process (error gets thrown on the line: set outParams = obj.ExecMethod_("GetOwner")).

    Is there a way I can grant a non-admin user to this property without making them an admin user?

    Is there another way to get logged in users on a machine without being an admin user?

    Note, the solution has to work on Win 7 OS.

     
     

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  • Friday, November 23, 2012 5:39 AM
     
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    No - only an admin can run this code.

    The terminal server snapin can allow a standard user to see and communicate with other users on a terminal server.

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