Custom Variable - Current Logged On User (for Dynamic Collections)

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  Michael Muni

  April 29, 2019 12:55

  %username% should give you the current user.

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  Craig Whetton

  May 09, 2019 08:18

  $env:username if using PowerShell

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  Marcel Büttinghaus

  May 09, 2019 08:31

  Sorry I think I described my problem completly wrong. I would like to create a "Dynamic collection" and use the current logged on user of the computer as a variable.

  The reason is that I want to create e.g. a Dynamic Collection that gives me all the computers where the logged on user is part of the local Administrators group.

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  Marcel Büttinghaus

  May 09, 2019 08:31

  Sorry I think I described my problem completly wrong. I would like to create a "Dynamic collection" and use the current logged on user of the computer as a variable.

  The reason is that I want to create e.g. a Dynamic Collection that gives me all the computers where the logged on user is part of the local Administrators group.

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  Craig Whetton

  May 09, 2019 08:57

  The best way I can think of doing this is having a login script GPO, that runs a PowerShell script. This PowerShell script checks the current user against the members of the local admins and then imports that data into a custom field for that PC in Inventory.

  If I get some time spare today, I'll have a play with PowerShell and see if I can get something working.

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  Craig Whetton

  May 09, 2019 13:54

  This works. It's probably not the best way of doing this.

  $user = "$env:USERNAME";
  $group = "Administrators";
  $groupObj =[ADSI]"WinNT://./$group,group" 
  $membersObj = @($groupObj.psbase.Invoke("Members")) 
  
  $members = ($membersObj | foreach {$_.GetType().InvokeMember("Name", 'GetProperty', $null, $_, $null)})
  
  $ErrorActionPreference = 'Continue'
  
  If ($members -contains $user) {
  $exists = $true
  } Else {
  $exists = $false
  }
  
  Write-Host "$exists"
  
  $computer = $env:COMPUTERNAME
  
  $customfieldname = "Admin?"
  $Customfieldtype = "String"
  
   $computerlist = @("ComputerName,$customfieldname")
  
   $computer | ForEach-Object {
  
  $computerlist += "$_,$exists"
  
  }
  
  pdqinventory createcustomfield -name $customfieldname -type $customfieldtype
  $tempfile = New-TemporaryFile
  $computerlist | out-file $tempfile
  
  pdqinventory importcustomfields -filename $tempfile -computercolumn "ComputerName" -customfields "$Customfieldname=$customfieldname" -allowoverwrite
  

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