Comments on: Get Logged In Users Using Powershell https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/ Documenting My Life as a System Administrator Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:53:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Alex https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-43121 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:53:55 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-43121 In reply to Paul.

Thanks Paul, I’ll check it out.

]]> By: Paul https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-42365 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:24:39 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-42365 Thanks for this, made a small script that uses the function to display users and log off the select users:
$servers = get-content $PSScriptRoot\servers.csv
$result = Get-loggedinUser -ComputerName $servers
$logoff = $result|Out-GridView -PassThru -Title “Select session(s) to logoff”
Foreach ($session in $logoff){
Write-host -ForegroundColor Green “Logging off $($session.UserName) from server $($session.ComputerName)”
logoff /server $session.Computername $session.SessionId
}

Servers.csv should contain the servers you want to check, it is possible to use the script below to select the servers to be included:

$Date = (Get-Date).AddDays(-30)
$servers = Get-ADComputer -Filter ‘OperatingSystem -like “*Server*” -and lastLogonTimestamp -gt $date’-Properties operatingSystem
($servers |Out-GridView -PassThru -Title “Select server to view sessions for”)| select -ExpandProperty Name|Set-Content $PSScriptRoot\servers.csv

]]> By: Alex https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-41437 Thu, 22 May 2025 19:38:54 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-41437 Paul, this script is great! I’ve been using it for a couple years to query users on four servers. Would there be a way to modify this script to not only return the username, but also their first and last names? I can do first and last names through Get-ADUser but I can’t see how to incorporate that with logged in computer info. But thanks again for this script!

]]> By: nesh https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-15728 Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:56:56 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-15728 Hi Mr Paul, is it possible that when I run the script on server A, it automatically reads the logged-on server A’s user and display it right away?

]]> By: R W https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-7767 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:57:57 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-7767 In reply to Paul Contreras.

Thanks for the response
I have a few other scripts that I use to generate html email reports with the output embedded in the body of the email and nicely formatted using ConvertToHtml and -Fragment.
I have used that along with your script and the output in the email is in tabular form which is exactly what I wanted so much appreciated, this is now scheduled at the start and end of the working day. I also have emails firing for logon event id 4624 and RDP Logon Type 10 so I know every time a user RDP’s onto the Servers.
When I run your script directly from Powershell however as mentioned it still lists the objects opposed to being tabular and I am not sure why but it is not a problem because I only run this against 11 Servers I admin.

Regards

]]> By: Paul Contreras https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-7703 Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:48:10 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-7703 In reply to R W.

By default anything after 4 properties get added as a list (instead of a table). if you want to get this email to you on a daily, you can use this article as reference.

https://thesysadminchannel.com/automate-powershell-scripts-with-task-scheduler/

For the results, I would probably export it to a csv then send the csv as an attachment.

]]> By: R W https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-7702 Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:40:34 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-7702 Hi Paul
Nice script, for me however, each object is getting listed 1 after the other, opposed to in tabular format, do you know why? (Windows 10, Powershell version 5.1)
Is it possible to get the output to be emailed on a daily schedule?
Thanks in advance

]]> By: Muzik https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-7616 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:16:36 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-7616 Paul
Not one to post, but i just had to. Coz its awesome work AND pretty neat (very structured and clean) too!
Thank you!

]]> By: Keith https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-1161 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:58:56 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-1161 In reply to Keith.

Oh – I didn’t see the space between the dots (. .\) to dot source. Never had to do that before – interesting.
You mentioned it’d be usable to find a logged in user – I tried using * with something like ‘Get-ADComputer’, but I guess it isn’t that simple.

]]> By: Keith https://thesysadminchannel.com/get-logged-in-users-using-powershell/#comment-1160 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:35:25 +0000 https://thesysadminchannel.com/?p=2159#comment-1160 This doesn’t seem to work for me… I tried the steps in PowerShell 7 and Windows PowerShell 5.1 (Windows 11).

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