Hi again, another curious question.
I’m trying to handle an array of users in local groups by doing the following:
$groupuser = Get-CimInstance -Query "SELECT * FROM Win32_GroupUser WHERE GroupComponent=""Win32_Group.Domain='$computername',Name='$group'""" $groupuser GroupComponent PartComponent PSComputerName -------------- ------------- -------------- Win32_Group (Name = "Administrators... Win32_UserAccount (Name = "Administ... Win32_Group (Name = "Administrators... Win32_UserAccount (Name = "AUser", D... Win32_Group (Name = "Administrators... Win32_Group (Name = "Group1"... Win32_Group (Name = "Administrators... Win32_Group (Name = "Group2", D... Win32_Group (Name = "Administrators... Win32_Group (Name = "Group3",...
This retrieves a list of members in the group wonderfully if I narrow it down further by doing $groupuser.PartComponent.Name.
Now here’s where it gets ugly. I want to shove the results into another array variable (or further refine the $groupuser var) by reducing this list to just a list of users in the array, not groups. However, as you can probably already tell, this array is made up of objects of multiple types:
PS H:\> $groupuser.PartComponent | gm
TypeName: Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimInstance#ROOT/cimv2/Win32_UserAccount
Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Clone Method System.Object ICloneable.Clone()
Dispose Method void Dispose(), void IDisposable.Dispose()
Equals Method bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetCimSessionComputerName Method string GetCimSessionComputerName()
GetCimSessionInstanceId Method guid GetCimSessionInstanceId()
GetHashCode Method int GetHashCode()
GetObjectData Method void GetObjectData(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info, Sys...
GetType Method type GetType()
ToString Method string ToString()
AccountType Property uint32 AccountType {get;}
Caption Property string Caption {get;}
Description Property string Description {get;}
Disabled Property bool Disabled {get;set;}
Domain Property string Domain {get;}
FullName Property string FullName {get;set;}
InstallDate Property CimInstance#DateTime InstallDate {get;}
LocalAccount Property bool LocalAccount {get;set;}
Lockout Property bool Lockout {get;set;}
Name Property string Name {get;}
PasswordChangeable Property bool PasswordChangeable {get;set;}
PasswordExpires Property bool PasswordExpires {get;set;}
PasswordRequired Property bool PasswordRequired {get;set;}
PSComputerName Property string PSComputerName {get;}
SID Property string SID {get;}
SIDType Property byte SIDType {get;}
Status Property string Status {get;}
PSStatus PropertySet PSStatus {Status, Caption, PasswordExpires}
TypeName: Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimInstance#ROOT/cimv2/Win32_Group
Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Clone Method System.Object ICloneable.Clone()
Dispose Method void Dispose(), void IDisposable.Dispose()
Equals Method bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetCimSessionComputerName Method string GetCimSessionComputerName()
GetCimSessionInstanceId Method guid GetCimSessionInstanceId()
GetHashCode Method int GetHashCode()
GetObjectData Method void GetObjectData(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo info, Sys...
GetType Method type GetType()
ToString Method string ToString()
Caption Property string Caption {get;}
Description Property string Description {get;}
Domain Property string Domain {get;}
InstallDate Property CimInstance#DateTime InstallDate {get;}
LocalAccount Property bool LocalAccount {get;set;}
Name Property string Name {get;}
PSComputerName Property string PSComputerName {get;}
SID Property string SID {get;}
SIDType Property byte SIDType {get;}
Status Property string Status {get;}
PSStatus PropertySet PSStatus {Status, Name}
So is there a way of simply focusing on just the one type of objects in the array? I figured if I can just narrow it to the Win32_UserAccount type, I can get just users.
Even if this isn’t the best solution for this particular goal, I’m still curious if it’s possible to distinguish objects in an object array via type.