Powershell – Replce Kix script with Powershell

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We are looking to replace our current Kix scripts with Powershell scripts and I was curious how to test group membership to map network drives. Our current kix script basically just does an if statement on every user group and tests if the user is a part of that group, if they are, it maps a network drive. Here is an example:

If InGroup("ADGROUP")
  Use m: "\\server\share"
EndIf

I doubt this is the most efficient way to do this but I wanted to ask how I can accomplish the same thing in PowerShell and what people recommend for a proper way to map drives and printers for users in Active Directory.

If this information is needed all of our clients are on Windows Vista/7 and we are just now moving to AD 2008.

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I would use group policy preferences to map drives in AD. See Using Group Policy Preferences to Map Drives Based on Group Membership for details. I also encourage user education on showing them how to add network locations to their libraries.

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Powershell – Elevated Powershell script

Depending on what you are trying to do will determine greatly what the real answer is. If you want the powershell script to run on the remote machine and you want the user to be able to run it. Your only option is to have credentials embedded into the script. This is dangerous and should not be done.

If you can launch the scripts remotely, your options become much better. In Powershell V2 you have remoting as an option to complete many tasks which will use the rights of the user running the script (i.e. the admin) on the target machine (the user's PC). In V1 you have the option of launching the script remotely via PSExec to use the credentials of the Admin. You also have the option of running the script on the Admin's PC and building it to interact with the remote machine via WMI/PSExec/etc.

The short answer to your direct question is No you cannot do that. However, you can accomplish the same thing by approaching it from a slightly different angle.

Powershell – How to register a user logon script using PowerShell

Using this article as a reference to start with, the following code will add user login script to the local user profile. Per the article, you may need to provide the whole path name to get the script to run on login.

$ComputerName = $env:COMPUTERNAME
$Computer = [adsi]"WinNT://$ComputerName"
$user = $Computer.psbase.Children.Find("SomeLocalUserName")
$user.LoginScript = "testscript.ps1"
$user.SetInfo()

Hope this helps.

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