How can I turn a local user into an administrator via the PowerShell command line?

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By : David Gómez

Date : November 29 2020, 09:01 AM

I think the issue was by ths following , I had a similar need once, except mine was to remove local admin rights. This was the core of what worked for me.... Since your new, make sure to predefine your variables for Domain name, Host name, and User. Hope this helps!

code :

    $AdminGroup = [ADSI]"WinNT://$HostName/Administrators,group"
    $InUser = [ADSI]"WinNT://$DomainName/$User,user"
    $Admingroup.Add($InUser.Path)

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By : user2817982

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

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By : Marcius Cayo Daltro

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

hope this fix your issue Whether you are local or on a remote machine via PowerShell remoting, a non-administrator account can not create new user accounts.
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By : paresh

Date : December 31 2020, 03:06 AM

With these it helps That is not possible. Allowing that would be a major security issue in Windows.

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By : Andrey Setyaev

Date : March 29 2020, 07:55 AM

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