Maintaining user environment variables in Powershell logon script with admin privileges

Question

I accidentally deleted 180 users from my AD and they aren't recoverable. I have recreated the accounts in AD and what not. This creates a new profile on their laptops when they login because of the new SID. I'm trying to write a script that grants them access to their old profile folder and create a shortcut on their desktop that leads there.

I've got the script working fine with one problem. The environment variables that are used, end up referring back to the admin account that runs the script. The users themselves don't have permission to change security on their old folder. I need to try and have the environment variables refer to the user yet have the privilege of an admin account to rewrite the permissions.

Here is the script so far.. I'm deploying this with Task Scheduler at the moment, which is another can of worms in that I'm not entirely understanding of the credential side of things there. I mean ideally, the task would run as a domain admin, execute the script asap, and have the script resolve the environment variables to the logged on user.

$permission = ":(OI)(CI)M"
$sam = $env:USERNAME
$folderName = "C:\Users\$($sam)"

Invoke-Expression -Command ( 'ICACLS $folderName /grant:r $sam$($permission) /t' )

$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("$Home\Desktop\Profile Backup.lnk")
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $folderName
$Shortcut.Save()

Its the $env:USERNAME and $home variables that are giving me trouble..

Or is there another way I should be tackling this problem?

Answer 1

You could use query session command to get the login name of the current logged on user. Then create NTAccount object based on that to retrieve SID and win32_userprofile WMI object to find out the profile path. Like this:

$m = query session | Select-String -Pattern "\>console\s*(\S*)\s"
$sam = $m.Matches[0].Groups[1].value

$acc = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($sam)
$sid = $acc.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).Value

$profile = Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_userprofile -Filter "SID='$sid'"
$folderName = $profile.LocalPath