Do we need to create a list of Windows user accounts on our device and possibly save it in a text or csv file? Do we need a report of the accounts present in the domain?
The guide below can help us do this in minutes!
The tool will do the job for us WMIC, the command line tool that allows you to manage and modify system users. As usual, we recommend that you follow only the instructions in this guide to avoid making unwanted changes.
Preliminary information
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Let's find out how to do it together!
Create a list of Windows user accounts
First of all, let's get familiar with Wmic: per display a "basic" list of the users present in the system we open a command prompt in administrator mode and, inside it, we type
wmic useraccount get name
We will then have a list, in the command prompt, of all user accounts present in the operating system.
The command above, however, shows usernames only of the accounts in question. To also view the name and surname of the account owner, if any, we will type
wmic useraccount get name,fullname
The result is below:
Again, the list at the top shows all the accounts present in the system, both active and inactive. To also show the status we are going to type
wmic useraccount get disabled,name,fullname
If the “disabled” entry is true the account is not active.
But wmic can give us a lot more information about the user accounts stored in the system: just type the command
wmic useraccount list full
to view them all! Here's what a single user on the list looks like in the prompt:
Let's see what the various information shown mean:
- AccountType: type of account, used in particular for computers belonging to domains. If our PC does not belong to any domain, the type will almost certainly be 512;
- Description: a description of the account, if any;
- Disabled: the account status (FALSE if active, TRUE if disabled);
- Domain: the name of the domain to which it belongs (or of the PC, if there is no domain);
- InstallDate: shows the date the account was created (domains only);
- LocalAccount: shows if the account is active on the local computer (TRUE) or within a domain server;
- Lockout: shows if the account is locked (for example in case of repeated password entry attempts);
- Name: the username of the account.
- PasswordChangeable, PasswordExpires and PasswordRequired: represent the security options for the password, if set; the first item denotes whether the password can be changed, the second if it is expiring, the third if it is required for all operations;
- SID: is the security identifier of the account;
- SIDType: is the numeric value that shows the type of SID for the user account (1 for user, 2 for group, 3 for domain);
- Status: represents the status of the account; if this is operational, the status is usually "OK" or "Degraded".
Including how wmic works, let's now see how report the information to a text file or on a .csv file - to be opened with a spreadsheet editor (Excel, Calc and others) or a browser for a tabular and ordered view of the information.
save the result of wmic in a text file, we will have to add to one of the commands seen above the string
/output:X:PercorsoDelFile.txt
where X is the disk, and FilePath is the full path to the text file to be saved, immediately thereafter WMIC. For example, to save the Windows user account list (names only) on our record, we're going to write
wmic /output:C:ListaUtenti.txt useraccount get name
To save the result of wmic in a csv file, instead, we will have to add to the entire command to save the string in the file as well
/format:csv
For example, to save the entire list of users with all related information on our C drive, in CSV format, we are going to type
wmic /output:C:ListaUtenti.csv useraccount list full /format:csv
Here is the result!
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