Mark

Hello,

Could anyone please let me know how to implement a PowerShell script which takes input from a text file consisting of servers and reboot all of them simultaneously?

After reboot is completed, I need to output a file to determine whether the reboot has been successfully completed for each and every server.

Environment: Windows 2008, Windows 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and 2019.

Thanks.

How to create a user on a remote machine by verifying the list of passwords in a text file ?

The script validates the username and password of the remote server, logs in with those credentials and creates user on that account.

Hello,

Could anyone please help with the powershell script to create a user and add it to Administrators group on Windows 2016 and 2019 servers.

Thanks.

I am trying to create a local administrator account on a Remote Windows Server 2003 and 2008. I am trying to list all the remote servers in a text-file and then trying to run a powershell script which executes on each server in the text-file and creates local administrator account. Currently, my script runs with an account that already has administrator rights on the remote systems.

I am not able to create local admin account remotely on Windows 2003 and 2008 servers. How can I accomplish this ?

Below is the script:

#Define variables
$computers = Get-Content C:Computers.txt
$username = “test_user”
$password = “xyz”
$fullname = “local admin account”
$local_security_group = “Administrators”
$description = “Description”

Foreach ($computer in $computers) {
$users = $null
$comp = [ADSI]”WinNT://$computer”

#Check if username exists
Try {
$users = $comp.psbase.children | select -expand name
if ($users -like $username) {
Write-Host “$username already exists on $computer”}
else {
#Create the account

$user = $comp.Create(“User”,”$username”)
$user.SetPassword(“$password”)
$user.Put(“Description”,”$description”)
$user.Put(“Fullname”,”$fullname”)
$user.SetInfo()
#Set password to never expire
#And set user cannot change password
$ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD = 0x10000
$ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE = 0x40
$user.userflags = $ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD + $ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE
$user.SetInfo()

#Add the account to the local admins group
$group = [ADSI]”WinNT://$computer/$local_security_group,group”
$group.add(“WinNT://$computer/$username”)

#Validate whether user account has been created or not
$users = $comp.psbase.children | select -expand name
if ($users -like $username) {
Write-Host “$username has been created on $computer”
}
else {
Write-Host “$username has not been created on $computer”
}
}
}Catch {
Write-Host “Error creating $username on $($computer.path): $($Error[0].Exception.Message)”
}
}

This script runs with an account that already has administrator rights on the remote systems. But how to create and add user to local admin group without administrator rights on remote system ?

#Define variables
$computers = Get-Content C:Computers.txt
$username = “test_user”
$password = “xyz”
$fullname = “local admin account”
$local_security_group = “Administrators”
$description = “Description”

Foreach ($computer in $computers) {
$users = $null
$comp = [ADSI]”WinNT://$computer”

#Check if username exists
Try {
$users = $comp.psbase.children | select -expand name
if ($users -like $username) {
Write-Host “$username already exists on $computer”

}

else {
#Create the account
$user = $comp.Create(“User”,”$username”)
$user.SetPassword(“$password”)
$user.Put(“Description”,”$description”)
$user.Put(“Fullname”,”$fullname”)
$user.SetInfo()

#Set password to never expire
#And set user cannot change password
$ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD = 0x10000
$ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE = 0x40
$user.userflags = $ADS_UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD + $ADS_UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE
$user.SetInfo()

#Add the account to the local admins group
$group = [ADSI]”WinNT://$computer/$local_security_group,group”
$group.add(“WinNT://$computer/$username”)

#Validate whether user account has been created or not
$users = $comp.psbase.children | select -expand name
if ($users -like $username) {
Write-Host “$username has been created on $computer”
}
else {
Write-Host “$username has not been created on $computer”
}
}
}

Catch {
Write-Host “Error creating $username on $($computer.path): $($Error[0].Exception.Message)”
}
}

Hello,

How to create a local user and add to local administrators group using a Powershell script with all possible error handling ?

Thanks.