Get-Everyone
Jeffery Snover just posted a Get-Me script. The Get-Me script finds out the principal of the user running PowerShell. In case you ever wanted to know how to get all of the users on a machine (or from a domain), here's a quick function that queries WMI for users.
function Get-Everyone([switch]$fromDomain) {
#.Synopsis
# Gets all users
#.Description
# Queries WMI to get all users. To save time, queries
# are local unless the -fromDomain switch is used
#.Parameter fromDomain
# If set, gets domain users as well as local accounts
#.Example
# # Get All Local Accounts
# Get-Everyone
#.Example
# # Get All Local & Domain Accounts
# Get-Everyone -fromDomain
$query = "Win32_UserAccount"
if (-not $fromDomain) {
$query+= " WHERE LocalAccount='True'"
}
Get-WmiObject $query
}
All of the comments are an example of comment-based help, which is feature of PowerShell that is available in CTP3 and Window 7 Betas (when they are out).
This means that I can embed examples within a function, as I did above.
# Get All Local Accounts
Get-Everyone
# Get All Local & Domain Accounts
Get-Everyone -fromDomain
Hope this helps,
James Brundage [MSFT]
