Remove group member if file exists

Question

I am trying to remove members from a local group created on our computers if a file does not exist.
This is for another project I am working on. The file will be a timestamp as to when the
user was added to the group. We have a script that will add the user to the group and create a file for the user. I want to remove users added manually and not using the program. I am receiving an error on $TempGroup.remove($User.Path) What am I missing? I uploaded the script as an image because the Azure Firewall did not like something in the script and it was blocked. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi @mara2021 ,

if you want to get the members of a local group on your computer please try this script:

$groupName = "Testgroup"  
$filePath = "C:\Junk\"  
$userlist = $((Get-LocalGroupMember -Group "$groupName").Name).Replace("$env:COMPUTERNAME\", "")  
$userlist | ForEach-Object {  
    if (Test-Path $filePath\$_.txt -PathType Leaf) {  
        Write-Output "$_ user file exists"  
    }  
    else {  
        Write-Output "$_ user file does not exists .... removing user from local group"   
        Remove-LocalGroupMember -Group "$groupName" -Member $_ -WhatIf   
    }  
}  

The -WhatIf parameter in line 10 will show what will happen, but will not remove the user from group. If everything is like expected just remove the -WhatIf parameter in line 10 and the user will be removed from the group

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

The problem is that your user value is a string and strings don't have a property named "Path".