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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<\/strong> does everything I need it to and and the logoff<\/strong> 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:<\/p>\n

To start, we simply need to run quser.exe in an Invoke-Command<\/em> scriptblock:<\/p>\n

$Computer = Read-Host \"Enter a Computer name\"\n\nif(Test-Connection -ComputerName $Computer -Count 1 -Quiet){\n    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -ScriptBlock {quser}\n\n    $ID = Read-Host \"Enter ID of user to logoff\"\n\n    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Computer -ArgumentList $ID -ScriptBlock {\n        param($ID)\n\n        logoff $ID\n    }\n} else{\n    Write-Host \"$Computer appears to be offline.`n\"\n}\n\nRead-Host \"Press enter to exit\"<\/pre>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/em><\/p>\n
That’s it! Quick and simple way to force users to logoff. What other sort of quick scripts do you run in your environment? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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