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Our (quite small) environment has Windows (8.1 and 7) machines with user accounts that have admin privileges. To fix this, I decided to write a powershell script which would add a new admin account and demote the current one. After running it, I could no longer login into anything. The script is simple:

If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))

{   

    Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs;

    exit

}



net user local_admin SuperSecurePassword /add /comment:"comment" /expires:never 

net localgroup "Administrators" local_admin /add



net localgroup "Administrators" "$env:username" /delete



Read-Host -Prompt "Enter!"

First, it relaunches from an elevated PS instance (taken from a popular question on SE), then runs the commands themselves.

All commands reported success on execution ("Command succesful" or something like that). However, I could no longer login into the system (not with the new profile, not with the old one) with this error message:

The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

We have no domain, just a bunch of PCs with local accounts (I know, I know). What am I doing wrong?

windows-8 windows-8.1 powershell batch

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Our (quite small) environment has Windows (8.1 and 7) machines with user accounts that have admin privileges. To fix this, I decided to write a powershell script which would add a new admin account and demote the current one. After running it, I could no longer login into anything. The script is simple:

If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))

{   

    Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs;

    exit

}



net user local_admin SuperSecurePassword /add /comment:"comment" /expires:never 

net localgroup "Administrators" local_admin /add



net localgroup "Administrators" "$env:username" /delete



Read-Host -Prompt "Enter!"

First, it relaunches from an elevated PS instance (taken from a popular question on SE), then runs the commands themselves.

All commands reported success on execution ("Command succesful" or something like that). However, I could no longer login into the system (not with the new profile, not with the old one) with this error message:

The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

We have no domain, just a bunch of PCs with local accounts (I know, I know). What am I doing wrong?

windows-8 windows-8.1 powershell batch

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AtmaksAtmaks

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Our (quite small) environment has Windows (8.1 and 7) machines with user accounts that have admin privileges. To fix this, I decided to write a powershell script which would add a new admin account and demote the current one. After running it, I could no longer login into anything. The script is simple:

If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))

{   

    Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs;

    exit

}



net user local_admin SuperSecurePassword /add /comment:"comment" /expires:never 

net localgroup "Administrators" local_admin /add



net localgroup "Administrators" "$env:username" /delete



Read-Host -Prompt "Enter!"

First, it relaunches from an elevated PS instance (taken from a popular question on SE), then runs the commands themselves.

All commands reported success on execution ("Command succesful" or something like that). However, I could no longer login into the system (not with the new profile, not with the old one) with this error message:

The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

We have no domain, just a bunch of PCs with local accounts (I know, I know). What am I doing wrong?

windows-8 windows-8.1 powershell batch

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If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))

{   

    Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs;

    exit

}



net user local_admin SuperSecurePassword /add /comment:"comment" /expires:never 

net localgroup "Administrators" local_admin /add



net localgroup "Administrators" "$env:username" /delete



Read-Host -Prompt "Enter!"

The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

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