A question came up on the Powershell.org forum about finding the groups of which local accounts are members
You can get account data using Win32_UserAccount
Group information is held in Win32_Group. You can see the relationship between users and groups by dumping the Win32_GroupUser instances. You will see a load of entries like this
GroupComponent : Win32_Group (Name = “Administrators”, Domain = “RSLAPTOP01″)
PartComponent : Win32_UserAccount (Name = “Administrator”, Domain = “RSLAPTOP01″)
PSComputerName : CimClass : root/cimv2:Win32_GroupUser
CimInstanceProperties : {GroupComponent, PartComponent}
CimSystemProperties : Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimSystemProperties
WMI classes have associations – in this case there is an association between the Win32_User and the Win32_Group classes. The Win32_GroupUser can be thought of as the linking class. What we need to do to is to go from the individual instances of Win32_User (the users) to the associated groups.
Something like this should do it
$data = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_UserAccount -Filter “LocalAccount = $true” |
foreach {
$groups = Get-CimAssociatedInstance -InputObject $PSItem -ResultClassName Win32_Group | select -ExpandProperty Name
$PSItem | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name “Groups” -Value ($groups -join “;”) -PassThru
}
$data | select Caption, Groups
WMI – a bit convoluted but it always gets there