Function Lock-Workstation locally and remotely

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Okay, yeah there are plenty of scripts out which give you local accounts via WMI or ADSI and yes scripts exist also which give you all local groups but there is not one which gives you both (of course there are also some) but what if you’re looking to implement this as a CustomScriptExtension to your Azure VM?

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Get and Set Timezones via PowerShell remotely

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

As published in my Technet Gallery Script Center here, you can get current timezones remotely via PowerShell with Get-Timezones. Get-Timezones is using WMI to communicate with your servers.

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Function Get-Timezones {
 <#
 .SYNOPSIS
 Retrieves timezones of local or remote computers via WMI.

 .DESCRIPTION
 Retrieves timezones of local or remote computers via WMI.

 .PARAMETER ComputerName
 A single Computer or an array of computer names. The default is localhost ($env:COMPUTERNAME).

 .PARAMETER Credentials
 Commit Credentials for a different domain.

 .PARAMETER Verbose
 Run in Verbose Mode.

 .EXAMPLE
 PS C:\&amp;amp;amp;gt; Get-Timezones -ComputerName (gc 'C:\computers.txt') -Credentials Get-Credential

 ComputerName TimezoneName DaylightSaving TimezoneCaption
 ------------ ------------ -------------- ---------------
 SERVER01 W. Europe Standard Time yes (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
 SERVER02 W. Europe Standard Time yes (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

 .NOTES
 Author: Sebastian Gräf
 Website: https://graef.io
 Email: ps@graef.io
 Date: June 27, 2017
 PSVer: 3.0/4.0/5.0
 #>

 [Cmdletbinding()]
 Param (
 [Parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
 $ComputerName = $Env:COMPUTERNAME,
 [Parameter(ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
 [ValidateNotNull()]
 [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential][System.Management.Automation.Credential()]
 $Credentials = [System.Management.Automation.PSCredential]::Empty
 )

 Begin {
 Write-Verbose " [$($MyInvocation.InvocationName)] :: Start Process"
 $Results = @()
 $ProgressCounter = 0
 }

 Process {
 foreach ($Computer in $ComputerName) {
 $ProgressCounter++
 Write-Progress -activity "Running on $Computer" -status "Please wait ..." -PercentComplete (($ProgressCounter / $ComputerName.length) * 100)
 if (Test-Connection $Computer -Count 1 -Quiet) {
 Write-Verbose " [$($MyInvocation.InvocationName)] :: Processing $Computer"
 try {
 $win32_timezone = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_timezone -ComputerName $Computer -ErrorAction Stop -Credential $Credentials
 if ($win32_timezone.DaylightBias -eq 0) { $daylightsaving = "no" } else { $daylightsaving = "yes" }
 $obj = New-Object -Type PSCustomObject -Property @{
 ComputerName = $Computer
 TimezoneCaption = $win32_timezone.Caption
 TimezoneName = $win32_timezone.StandardName
 DaylightSaving = $daylightsaving
 }
 $Results += $obj
 }
 catch {
 Write-Verbose " Host [$Computer] Failed with Error: $($Error[0])"
 }
 }
 else {
 Write-Verbose " Host [$Computer] Failed Connectivity Test"
 }
 }
 $Results | select ComputerName, TimezoneName, DaylightSaving, TimezoneCaption
 }
 End {
 Write-Progress -activity "Running on $Computer" -Status "Completed." -Completed
 Write-Verbose " [$($MyInvocation.InvocationName)] :: End Process"
 }
}

This will give you following output:

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Function Lock-Workstation locally and remotely

Get Local Account Memberships

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Get and Set Timezones via PowerShell remotely