I’m not a fan of embedding my credentials into a script (which a few other example here do) and additionally, you generally can’t do this from something like Packer or some other system/configuration automation or in a cloud provider with an pseudo-randomly generated password. Plus, generally, I feel hardcoding your credentials into a script or … Read more
In search of this same solution, I found what I needed under a different question in stackoverflow: Powershell-log-off-remote-session. The below one line will return a list of logged on users. query user /server:$SERVER
I ended up opening a case with Microsoft, and this is the information I was given: Process.Start internally calls CreateProcessWithLogonW(CPLW) when credentials are specified. CreateProcessWithLogonW cannot be called from a Windows Service Environment (such as an IIS WCF service). It can only be called from an Interactive Process (an application launched by a user who … Read more
I hate to post my own answer, but some answers recently have ignored the solution I posted in my own question, suggesting approaches that are nothing short of foolhardy. In short – you do not need to edit any Windows user account privileges at all. Doing so only introduces risk. The process is entirely managed … Read more