Created this script to help a business add / disable and update local user on their Windows Home machine which they do not have an IT person to help manage their computers or accounts.
Local business needed a way for a central person or manager to update other employee's accounts or to disable them when they were no longer employeed.
With the script, they are able to view local user accounts, add a new user, change their passwords or disable an account.
I did not add a way to remove / delete an account for the purpose of keeping former employee's data intact in case they every came back or needed any files from their local profile.
Do this First
Security: This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer
Once you download the zip or clone the repo, you must right-click and select "Unblock" checkbox and hit Apply and OK.
The best way to run this script is to create a shortcut by right clicking and mousing over "Send To" and select Desktop. Then right click on the on on the shortcut and select / click on "Properties".
Place the following in front of the Target field / input field so the file will run as a Powershell.exe file:
powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\A path with spaces\Get-LocalUser.ps1'"
or
powershell.exe -command "& 'C:\A-pathWithNoSpaces\Get-LocalUser.ps1'"
Hit Apply and then, under the Shortcut tab, click on Advanced and select the checkbox "Run as Administrator" and click Apply again and then Ok.
If you are a standard user, it will prompt you for admin creds and then launch the script
If you are an admin, it will prompt you and you can click on Yes
To Check your current ExecutionPolicy enter:
Get-ExecutionPolicy -List
To Set your ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned enter:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPlicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
- MachinePolicy
- UserPolicy
- Process
- CurrentUser
- LocalMachine
You should now be able to double click on the shortcut and run the script as admin. Hope this script is helpful to someone and hope you enjoy it.
Feedback would greatly be appreciated and welcomed (gentle feedback lol) and also any feature you would like to see me add to it, let me know.