I am in need of a script or powershell command that will be able to determine the session id of a specific logged in user on remote machine, to be later used as parameter to the psexec -i execution of remote gui process on that session of that user on the remote machine.
So far i managed to use
psexec \\remoteMachine -u user -p pswrd query session
to get list of sessions on the remote machine:
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console 0 Conn wdcon
rdp-tcp#919 user 1 Active rdpwd
rdp-tcp#916 user 3 Active rdpwd
so i guess i could somehow isolate the needed id and use it - but haven't managed to do that yet
Any ideas?
Maybe other - simpler ways?
Thanks for the help.
With the PSTerinalServices powershell module you can get the user sessions and IDs.
The module can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PSTerminalServices
PS > Get-TSSession -UserName user1 -ComputerName pc1 | select UserName,SessionId
UserName SessionId
-------- ---------
User 1
As long as you're using PSExec, I would just stick with it. You can get the ID field pretty easily given a username e.g.:
$username = 'joe'
$results = psexec \\remoteMachine -u adminuser -p password query session
$id = $results | Select-String "$username\s+(\w+)" |
Foreach {$_.Matches[0].Groups[1].Value}
psexec \\remoteMachine -u $username -i $id -d notepad.exe
Note that you want to use -d
with PSExec otherwise it will wait until the launched program exits.
It's possible to do that without PowerShell.
There is qwinsta
command line tool that ships with Windows that you can use.
Example:
c:\>qwinsta
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
services 0 Disc
console 1 Conn
>rdp-tcp#0 YourUser 2 Active rdpwd
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen
Usage:
c:\>qwinsta /?
Display information about Remote Desktop Sessions.
QUERY SESSION [sessionname | username | sessionid]
[/SERVER:servername] [/MODE] [/FLOW] [/CONNECT] [/COUNTER] [/VM]
sessionname Identifies the session named sessionname.
username Identifies the session with user username.
sessionid Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
/SERVER:servername The server to be queried (default is current).
/MODE Display current line settings.
/FLOW Display current flow control settings.
/CONNECT Display current connect settings.
/COUNTER Display current Remote Desktop Services counters information.
/VM Display information about sessions within virtual machines.