Querying the Display Name without AD

[lavascript]

I have a script that references the user's name. Currently, I'm doing that with a vbscript that queries AD. But I'm having a problem when a machine is on a different domain than the user. Thinking about it a little further, my script wouldn't work for anyone who's offline or otherwise cannot contact a DC.

Surely there's a way to find the current Display Name, since it shows up quite clearly right at the top of the Start Menu.

Any ideas?

[Mechaflash]

when you say "Display Name" and that it "shows up quite clearly right at the top of the Start Menu." you mean the currently logged in user?

msgbox(0,"",@UserName)

[hannes08]

I'm sure it's sored somwhere in the cached credentials - loot in that direction.

Post what you find out because I'm sure this is interesting to sonme others as well.

[lavascript]

when you say "Display Name" and that it "shows up quite clearly right at the top of the Start Menu." you mean the currently logged in user?

msgbox(0,"",@UserName)

No, no, that's the username. Display Name is generally FName LName, but it may be different.

[JLogan3o13]

I would think you could do a simple call to WMI? Something like:

$WMI = ObjGet("WinMgmts:root/cimv2")
$colQuery1 = $WMI.ExecQuery("Select UserName FROM Win32_ComputerSystem")

For $item In $colQuery1
    $ID = $item.UserName
Next

$colQuery2 = $WMI.ExecQuery("Select * FROM Win32_NetworkLoginProfile")

For $object In $colQuery2
    If $object.Name = $ID Then
        MsgBox(0, "", $object.Fullname)
    EndIf
Next

[lavascript]

YES. That is EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Thank you!

I had found this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alejacma/archive/2008/03/04/how-to-get-the-logged-on-user-with-wmi-vbscript.aspx

But yours seems to work better. Thanks again!

[JLogan3o13]

Glad to be of help