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Kapila Munaweera's avatar
Kapila Munaweera
Brass Contributor
Apr 19, 2019

Local Admin rights

Is there a way to generate a report of users who has access local admin rights on the machines he/she has logged onto?
Alex Verboon's avatar
Alex Verboon
MVP
Oct 29, 2019

Hello Kapila Munaweera 

 

Using Advanced hunting you can run the following query to find users who logged on with local admin rights. 

 

// find users that logged on with Local Admin rights.
LogonEvents
| where IsLocalAdmin == 1
| extend locallogon = extractjson("$.IsLocalLogon",AdditionalFields, typeof(string))
| project EventTime , ComputerName, AccountDomain, AccountName , LogonType, ActionType, locallogon

 

  • StevenM's avatar
    StevenM
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 22, 2020

    Alex Verboon 

     

    The script works to see who has logged in with local admin, but is there a way to see what systems have accounts with local admin.  We have 5,800 PCs in ATP, of those I am trying to see where the local admins live and how many machines 1 person has access to.  If I can get the raw data out, I can manipulate it in Excel.  Thank you Alex.

    • Alex Verboon's avatar
      Alex Verboon
      MVP
      Jan 23, 2020

      StevenM 

       

      You can't query that information with MDATP, but if you use ConfigMgr you can use CMPIVOT which also provides the kusto query language and there you can run real time queries against all your devices. 

       

      Description Query

      List all Active directory user that are administrator of their machineAdministrators | where (ObjectClass == 'User') | where (PrincipalSource == 'ActiveDirectory')
      List on which machine an admin is administratorAdministrators | where (Name == 'DOMAIN\\USERNAME')

       

      also take a look at this video

      Query local Administrators – https://youtu.be/bnZlapKHIh8?t=649

       

      Hope that helps. 

       

      There are also plently of blog posts about creating ConfigMgr reports for local administrators. 

       

      Hope that helps

      Alex