By: Phil Bolduc

Phil Bolduc — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:42:00 +0000

I have always used the following code to test if the user is an admin

function Test-Administrator {
if (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole(`
[Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] “Administrator”))
{
return $false
}

return $true
}

if (-NOT (Test-Administrator)) {
Write-Warning “You do not have Administrator rights to run this script!`nPlease re-run this script as an Administrator!”
break
}

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By: Phil Bolduc