You can create a new local user using the New-LocalUser cmdlet. For example, to figure out who is a member of the local Administrators group, run the command Get-LocalGroupMember Administrators. To view the members of a specific group, use the Get-LocalGroupMember cmdlet. To view the local groups on a computer, run the command I do that because it’s a lab machine and renaming the account from Administrator means that it won’t default to the local Admin account when I want to sign on as the default Domain Admin account, which is also named Administrator. You’ll notice there that I’ve already renamed the local Administrator account on this particular computer to Admin. The LocalAccounts module of PowerShell, included in Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 by default, makes this process a lot simpler.įor example, to see all the local users on a specific computer, run the command Managing local users and groups can be a bit of a chore, especially on a computer running the Server Core version of Windows Server.

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