Get current logged on user of a machine remotely

In this post I will show how you can remotely discover which user is logged onto a particular workstation in your environment.

Open PowerShell and run:

Get-WmiObject –ComputerName WORKSTATION-HOSTNAME –Class Win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object UserName

Replace ‘WORKSTATION-HOSTNAME’ with the hostname of the workstation that you are retrieving the current logged on user for.