Hi,

We have about 20 terminal servers running process X and I would like to write a powershell script that goes to the 20 servers(Listed in a notepad file), finds the running process X with the process owner and returns it for every server listed in a notepad file. There are examples out there but none fit what I need and I have tried to adapt them to my needs but I haven't been successful. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA

Sorry, This one will put the server name in the file.

$servers = Get-Content C:\temp\servers.txt 
$results = foreach ($server in $servers){
Get-WmiObject win32_process -Filter "name='smc.exe'" | Select-Object @{n='Server';e={$server}},Name,@{n='Owner';e={$_.GetOwner().User}}
}
$results | Out-File C:\temp\process.txt -Append

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$servers = Get-Content C:\temp\servers.txt 
$results = foreach ($server in $servers){
Get-WmiObject win32_process -Filter "name='smc.exe'" | Select-Object Name,@{n='Owner';e={$_.GetOwner().User}}
}
$results | Out-File C:\temp\process.txt -Append

Replace the filter with the name of your process.

Sorry, This one will put the server name in the file.

$servers = Get-Content C:\temp\servers.txt 
$results = foreach ($server in $servers){
Get-WmiObject win32_process -Filter "name='smc.exe'" | Select-Object @{n='Server';e={$server}},Name,@{n='Owner';e={$_.GetOwner().User}}
}
$results | Out-File C:\temp\process.txt -Append

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Thanks for responding. Your script will return any process that a local user is using but none from any terminal services sessions. Any ideas why?

TIA

• Edited by Rich Ellis-MC 12 hours 26 minutes ago

Thanks for responding. Your script will return any process that a local user is using but none from any terminal services sessions. Any ideas why?

TIA

• Edited by Rich Ellis-MC 12 hours 17 minutes ago

Sorry, This one will put the server name in the file.

$servers = Get-Content C:\temp\servers.txt 
$results = foreach ($server in $servers){
Get-WmiObject win32_process -Filter "name='smc.exe'" | Select-Object @{n='Server';e={$server}},Name,@{n='Owner';e={$_.GetOwner().User}}
}
$results | Out-File C:\temp\process.txt -Append

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Thanks for responding. Your script will return any process that a local user is using but none from any terminal services sessions. Any ideas why?

TIA

• Edited by Rich Ellis-MC Friday, September 04, 2015 6:45 PM

Thanks for responding. Your script will return any process that a local user is using but none from any terminal services sessions. Any ideas why?

TIA

Is it being run from an application server and not locally?

Get-Process cannot see remote apps.

You can use PowerShell Remoting to accomplish this. However, you would need to enable PowerShell Remoting on all of the Terminal Servers. You can then run the script above provided in either a .PS1 file or in a scriptblock like the one below. This is like executing the .PS1 script locally on the remote machines using the Invoke-Command cmdlet

$servers = Get-Content C:\temp\servers.txt 
$results = foreach ($server in $servers)
{
Invoke-Command -FilePath c:\temp\test.ps1 -ComputerName $server
}
$results | Out-File C:\temp\process.txt -Append