Windows – Setup GPO Logon script using powershell

I might get down voted for this, but so be it. I've always considered logon scripts to be kind of hack'ish and try to only use them as a last resort. There are so many ways to manage systems and users these days with things like Group Policy, Group Policy Preferences, and SCCM/SMS. I mean, there's always going to be cases where there just isn't a better way to do things. But many of the examples provided so far can easily be done without a login script like installing software and mapping network drives.

Using a User Logon Script policy will always run the script as the user. There's no getting around that. As an alternative, you could consider using a Computer Startup Script. These are excecuted as the Local System account, which will have privs roughly equivilent to a local administrator account.