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How to check particular user has what rights on Hyper-V Failover cluster using WMI APIs

Krupal Joshi 1 Reputation point
2020-08-05T08:11:05.777+00:00

How to check particular user has what rights on Hyper-V Failover cluster using WMI APIs.

e.g.: I wanted to check, does "user1" has rights (with provided credentials) to list out VM(s), perform checkpoint/snapshot on VM(s) in Hyper-V Failover cluster.

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  1. Ian Xue (Shanghai Wicresoft Co., Ltd.) 33,696 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-08-06T06:04:37.023+00:00

    Hi,
    You could use the powershell cmdlet Get-ClusterAccess.
    It gets information about permissions that control access to a failover cluster.
    For more details you could refer to this link
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/failoverclusters/Get-ClusterAccess?view=win10-ps

    Best Regards,
    Ian

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