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

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Marcel Büttinghaus

Hey @all,

I would like to use the current logged on user as a variable for Dynamic Collections.

A reason is that I would like to check if the current logged on user is part of the local administrators group on his logged on computer..

Do anyone know if this is somehow possible?

I am thankful for all answers.

Greeting,

Mazl

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  • Michael Muni

    %username% should give you the current user.

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  • Craig Whetton

    $env:username if using PowerShell

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  • Marcel Büttinghaus

    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

    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

    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

    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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