If you work in Ops support you often run into situations where you need to remotely log a user off their machine. Today I’m going to share my general go-to snippet for quickly doing this. To me, quser.exe does everything I need it to and and the logoff command handles the actual logoff once I know the user ID. So instead of reinventing the wheel, we can simply wrap that in a way that flows quickly:
To start, we simply need to run quser.exe in an Invoke-Command scriptblock:
$Computer = Read-Host "Enter a Computer name"
if(Test-Connection -ComputerName $Computer -Count 1 -Quiet){
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -ScriptBlock {quser}
$ID = Read-Host "Enter ID of user to logoff"
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -ArgumentList $ID -ScriptBlock {
param($ID)
logoff $ID
}
} else{
Write-Host "$Computer appears to be offline.`n"
}
Read-Host "Press enter to exit"
So as you can see here we’re just doing a quick ping check based on user input and then displaying the list of current sessions followed by prompting the user to input an ID to force logoff.
Note: This may require elevation in your environment so be sure to launch the script as admin, or wrap it in a .lnk shortcut that auto launches as admin.
That’s it! Quick and simple way to force users to logoff. What other sort of quick scripts do you run in your environment?
