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Set and Check User Rights Assignment via Powershell

You can add, remove, and check user rights assignment (remotely / locally) with the following powershell scripts..

Posted by : blakedrumm on Jan 5, 2022

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This post was last updated on August 29th, 2022

I stumbled across this gem ( weloytty/Grant-LogonAsService.ps1 ) that allows you to grant Logon as a Service Right for a User. I modified the script you can now run the Powershell script against multiple machines, users, and user rights.

Set User Rights

How to get it.

All of the User Rights that can be set:

Note You may edit line 437 in the script to change what happens when the script is run without any arguments or parameters, this also allows you to change what happens when the script is run from the Powershell ISE.

Here are a few examples:

Add Users Single Users Example 1 Add User Right “Allow log on locally” for current user: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -AddRight -UserRight SeInteractiveLogonRight Example 2 Add User Right “Log on as a service” for CONTOSO\User: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -AddRight -Username CONTOSO\User -UserRight SeServiceLogonRight Example 3 Add User Right “Log on as a batch job” for CONTOSO\User: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -AddRight -Username CONTOSO\User -UserRight SeBatchLogonRight Example 4 Add User Right “Log on as a batch job” for user SID S-1-5-11: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -AddRight -Username S-1-5-11 -UserRight SeBatchLogonRight Add Multiple Users / Rights / Computers Example 5 Add User Right “Log on as a service” and “Log on as a batch job” for CONTOSO\User1 and CONTOSO\User2 and run on, local machine and SQL.contoso.com: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -AddRight -UserRight SeServiceLogonRight , SeBatchLogonRight -ComputerName $ env : COMPUTERNAME , SQL.contoso.com -UserName CONTOSO\User1 , CONTOSO\User2

Remove Users Single Users Example 1 Remove User Right “Allow log on locally” for current user: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -RemoveRight -UserRight SeInteractiveLogonRight Example 2 Remove User Right “Log on as a service” for CONTOSO\User: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -RemoveRight -Username CONTOSO\User -UserRight SeServiceLogonRight Example 3 Remove User Right “Log on as a batch job” for CONTOSO\User: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -RemoveRight -Username CONTOSO\User -UserRight SeBatchLogonRight Example 4 Remove User Right “Log on as a batch job” for user SID S-1-5-11: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -RemoveRight -Username S-1-5-11 -UserRight SeBatchLogonRight Remove Multiple Users / Rights / Computers Example 5 Remove User Right “Log on as a service” and “Log on as a batch job” for CONTOSO\User1 and CONTOSO\User2 and run on, local machine and SQL.contoso.com: . \Set-UserRights.ps1 -RemoveRight -UserRight SeServiceLogonRight , SeBatchLogonRight -ComputerName $ env : COMPUTERNAME , SQL.contoso.com -UserName CONTOSO\User1 , CONTOSO\User2

Check User Rights

In order to check the Local User Rights, you will need to run the above (Get-UserRights), you may copy and paste the above script in your Powershell ISE and press play.

Note You may edit line 467 in the script to change what happens when the script is run without any arguments or parameters, this also allows you to change what happens when the script is run from the Powershell ISE.

Get Local User Account Rights and output to text in console:

Get Remote SQL Server User Account Rights:

Get Local Machine and SQL Server User Account Rights:

Output Local User Rights on Local Machine as CSV in ‘C:\Temp’:

Output to Text in ‘C:\Temp’:

PassThru object to allow manipulation / filtering:

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Managing Privileges using PoshPrivilege

A recent project of mine has been to write a module to manage privileges on a local system. What I came up is a module called PoshPrivilege that allows you to not only look at what user rights are available on a local or remote system, but also provide the ability to Add, Remove, Enable and Disable the privileges as well.

If you are running PowerShell V5, you can download this module from the PowerShell Gallery:

Otherwise, check out my GitHub page where I am maintaining this project:

https://github.com/proxb/PoshPrivilege

I won’t spend time talking about how I wrote this module and my reasons behind it. What I will say is that instead of writing out C# code and then using Add-Type to compile it, I went with the Reflection approach of building out everything from the pinvoke signatures for methods to the Structs and even the Enums.

Let’s get started by looking at what is available in this module. The first function that is available is Get-Privilege and it comes with a few parameters. This function’s purpose is to let you view what privileges are currently available on the system (local or remote) as well as what is currently applied to your current process token.

A quick run through of using this function with various parameters:

If this one looks familiar, then it is probably likely that you have used the following command:

I opted for boolean values instead to determine the state for easier filtering if needed.

Up next are the Enable/Disable-Privilege functions. These work to Enable or Disable the privileges that are currently available on your local system to your process token. This means that if something like SeDebugPrivilege isn’t available on your system (such as being removed via Group Policy), then you cannot use Enable-Privilege to add your process token to this privilege. As in the previous image where we can see what is enabled and disabled, these are the only privileges that are available for me to work with.

To show this point, I am going to enable both SeSecurityPrivilege and SeDebugPrivilege so you can see that while the first privilege will show as Enabled, the other will not appear as it has not been made available.

As you can see from the picture, SeSecurityPrivilege has been enabled as expected, but SeDebugPrivilege is nowhere to be found. If we want SeDebugPrivilege, we will need to go about this another way which will be shown shortly.

Disabling a privilege can be done using Disable-Privilege as shown in the example below.

Now that I have covered Enabling and Disabling of the privileges and their limitations, I will move onto the Add/Remove-Privilege functions which allow you to add a privilege for a user or group or remove them on a local system. Note that this only works up until it gets reverted if set by group policy. This will also note show up if you look at the privileges available on your current process token (you will log off and log back in to see it).

Remember that I do not have SeDebugPrivilege available to use? Well, now we can add it to my own account using Add-Privilege.

We can see it is now available, but as I mentioned before, it doesn’t show up in my current process. A logoff and login now shows that it is not only available, but already enabled.

With this now enabled, we could disable it as well if needed using Disable-Privilege. I added my account for show, but we can also add groups this was as well.

As with Adding a privilege, we can remove privileges as well using Remove-Privilege.

As with Add-Privilege, you will need to log off and log back in to see the change take effect on your account.

Again, you can install this module using Install-Module if running PowerShell V5 and this project is out on GitHub to download (and contribute to as well). Enjoy!

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I downloaded the scripts from Github, but getting compile errors.

Specifically the errors are around the WInOS Structures listed below:

Unable to find type [LUID]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded. Unable to find type [LSA_UNICODE_STRING]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded. Unable to find type [LARGE_INTEGER]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded. Unable to find type [LUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded. Unable to find type [TokPriv1Luid]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded.

Unable to find type [TOKEN_INFORMATION_CLASS]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded.

Unable to find type [ProcessAccessFlags]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded.

BTW, I have posted the full error log @ https://docs.google.com/document/d/18boeWSbvlLwpoIAMTJAp0ooNaLxe6kniYrJr_q3ZNMQ/edit?usp=sharing

Just a question, how can I grant the SESecurityPrivilege to the Set-Acl process ? If I do a whoami /priv I can see my useraccount (PS –> run as administrator) I can see the privilege is enabled, but when I try to run the script I have I get the following error :

Set-Acl : The process does not possess the ‘SeSecurityPrivilege’ privilege which is required for this operation. At C:\Scripts\SESOG\ImportACLSEv2.ps1:16 char:16 + $acl | Set-Acl $path + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (P:\Common:String) [Set-Acl], PrivilegeNotHeldException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Security.AccessControl.PrivilegeNotHeldException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetAclCommand

The script looks like this : $par = Import-Csv -Path “c:\scripts\sesog\ImportMainCC.csv” -Delimiter “;”

foreach ( $i in $par ) { $path= $i.Path $IdentityReference= $i.IdentityReference $AccessControlType=$i.AccessControlType $InheritanceFlags= $i.InheritanceFlags $PropagationFlags=$i.PropagationFlags $FileSystemRights=$i.FileSystemRights echo $path $IdentityReference $acl = Get-Acl $path $permission = $IdentityReference, $FileSystemRights, $InheritanceFlags, $PropagationFlags, $AccessControlType $accessRule = new-object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule $permission $acl.SetAccessRule($accessRule) $acl | Set-Acl $path }

In the import csv a path is set and exported export rights from the original location (I am doing a fileserver migration) but on each of the folders mentioned the inherentance flag has been removed.

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You are a lifesaver! I have been fretting over how to manage service account rights on remote servers – each OU has a corresponding AD security group and GPO, and doing this manually is both time-consuming and fraught with error. I can’t wait to try this out. First PoshWSUS, then this …you rock.

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Managing User Rights in Powershell

Managing User Rights Assignments in Powershell

Windows User Rights, also known as Windows Privileges, are traditionally managed via GPO or in the simplest of cases via the server’s Local Security Policy. These assignments control special permissions that are often needed by IIS applications or other application hosting on Windows Servers.

So how can we manage these assignments in Powershell? There’s no obvious solution provided in Powershell, but there are several options are available. None of which are a pure Powershell solution, but some are close.

• Wrap the ntrights.exe process in Powershell. This is relatively simple, but the downside is having an external dependency on the ntrights.exe file.
• Embed a wrapper class to the LSA API in your script. This is a pretty good solution but certainly bloats your script.
• Load and Reference the Carbon DLL (If you haven’t already checked out this Powershell library, you should it is very powerful and regularly updated. I choose this approach because it keeps the script clean and compact, it returns an array of strings for easy interrogation. It does require a dependency on carbon.dll, but this library provides a ton of functionality beyond just this.

I like the 3rd option, its very clean, and I like working with the Carbon library.

Now lets take this script to the next level and wrap it into a DSC Script implementation. We can use this same logic in a DSC configuration to make sure our desired User Rights Assignments are kept in place.

What else can we do? We could also create a Custom DSC Resource to have a cleaner DSC Configuration.

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List all user rights assignment permissions in domain for specific account

Hi, this might be an overwhelming task but it is good to know whether this is possible. I want to list all permissions which are given to specific account via GPOs (default domain policy and default domain controller policy). It is account used by backup software and in order to work properly this account had to be given bunch of permissions to (Create a token object, Log on as a batch job, etc.). Of course given permissions can be seen in Group Policy MMC but I am interested only in getting permissions given to that account and exporting these permissions to some file for the purpose of documenting them.

Thanks in advance.

You are talking about UserRights Assignments, not permissions. With that said, here is a nice looking module someone wrote that can do what you are asking. I have not tested it, but looks very promising. Of course you should evaluate their code and confirm it will pose not threat to your environment before using anything taken from the internet.

https://userrights.codeplex.com/

Maybe I am wrong but it seems this module does the job only for local user rights assignment on given computer (local security policy). I need PowerShell code to retrieve user rights assignments given to specific account via GPOs (rights assigned to account in both Default Domain Policy and Default Domain Controller Policy).

Well, the rights on the local computer will be the culmination of the applied GPO’s, so it would be the effective rights after the GPOs have applied. If you are wanting to specifically look at the GPOs themselves, you can use the GPO cmdlets. Specifically, if you are good at XML, you can use the Get-GPOReport cmdlet.

[xml]$report = Get-GPOReport -Name “Default Domain Policy” -ReportType XML

I know that Curtis :-), rights on local computer will be result of applied GPOs on that computer. If used, this module has to be copied to one domain member machine and one domain controller and tested on both of them. Since you can do virtually anything with PowerShell nowadays I assume there is some way to pull out user rights assignments from GPO and filter them based on specific account.

The only way I can think to get the gpo settings was in the second part of my previous statement. …

If you are wanting to specifically look at the GPOs themselves, you can use the GPO cmdlets. Specifically, if you are good at XML, you can use the Get-GPOReport cmdlet.

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How to Set Logon User Rights with the Ntrights.exe in windows 10(64 bit) [duplicate]

I need to know whether ntrights.exe 64 bit version exists?

If not, which is the 64 bit equivalent of ntrights.exe?

Thanks in advance.

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What is an equivalent for ntrights.exe on Windows 10?

Set and Check User Rights Assignment via Powershell You can add, remove, and check User Rights Assignment (remotely / locally) with the following Powershell scripts.

Read the blakedrumm page for detailed instructions, and download the script .

I just tested it successfully on Windows 2022 Standard.

• 1 This look really useful but all of the links are broken. –  user2871239 Jan 26, 2023 at 13:35

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Analyze the effective User Rights Assignments on a computer and compare results

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Powershell GPO Deep Dive – Part 1

Creating a GPO in order to set User Rights Assignment completely in PowerShell: Can it be done?

This series of posts aims to share some interesting things learned about how GPOs are structured and things discovered about what backup-gpo and import-gpo routines are doing within the Powershell GPO module . The research was limited to User Rights Assignments and scripting up such a GPO – with absolutely no warranties what so ever!

Remember that changing security settings and user rights assignments can cause issues.

It turnns out that there is another way that this can be done by creating a blank GPO and creating the relevant files directly in SYSVOL in around 10 lines of code but this does feel even more dangerous / hacky to me.

Create a GPO for User Rights Assignment in Powershell

One of my colleagues asked me if we could script up an end-to-end GPO that would add in some Deny elements within the User Rights Assignments section. I immediately replied with “yeah sure, no worries” with a vague recollection that there was now a bunch of GPO commands like New-GPO that could create a GPO and command-lets that let you set registry values ( Set-GPRegistryValue ).

Some time later I discovered that actually…. NO.. No it is not possible to script up a full GPO to do what we wanted. It is possible to make a new empty GPO, Link it, add registry settings but if there is a need to add Deny Logon type elements to the Security node under User Rights Assignment, this is not currently possible.

This discovery disappointed me to say the least. What other options are available? Before moving any further let’s talk about what our given scenario was:

We would like to script up a GPO that will allow us to dynamically inject the usernames and groups that we want to be denied access to various User Rights Assignment elements in a GPO.

Of course, you could make a GPO through the GUI and then export it as a Backup using the Backup-GPO command and then save that somewhere and you could just import that GPO using Import-GPO . In our scenario, this just won’t cut it. We need to be able to inject our own account and group names – If we just blindly import, we’ll just get a bunch of stuff that may or may not be valid based on some statically exported values.

This got me thinking: what if we could Back up a GPO, get the resultant files prepared in such a way that we can replace the relevant values in the files that it creates with the user and group names of the things we want inside the GPO, and THEN run the Import-GPO command?

Before we jump down that rabbit hole, let us consider what gets created by the backup-gpo command-let in the specific scenario we are looking at.

What’s in an Empty GPO?

In order to back up a GPO, we first need a GPO to back up.  In our example, we will create a GPO called “NewGPO”

Looking at this GPO, we can see that it is empty. The only thing of note for us is the Unique ID (GUID) of {28AA0345-4804-4CE9-A41D-F7C89D5D5BD3}

We will find this policy “{28AA0345-4804-4CE9-A41D-F7C89D5D5BD3}” under sysvol. In the filesystem, it looks like this:

The first folder “Machine” is the structure for Computer related elements. The second folder “User” is for User related Policy Elements.

Since our GPO is empty, both folders will also be empty. However there is a file called “GPT.INI” in the root of this folder (note that the filename is in capital letters – strangely, capitals only when created not restored). At this point the GPT.INI contains the GPO Version (how many times the policy has been modified and saved) and displayName of the policy as shown in the console. The encoding for this file is “UTF-8” (see screenshot below as an example):

A GPO with one User Rights Assignment value set

Lets go back into our GPO and create a single element for Deny Access to this computer from the network and set it for Administrators as pictured below:

If we walk the filesystem under SYSVOL as we did earlier, we will find that everything is the same, except that the “Machine” folder tree now has a subfolder \Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit containing a single file called GptTmpl.inf

Looking at the file, we can see it is like any old school .inf file with sections in square brackets. The last section is where the actual Logon Rights are stored. In this case; we asked for Deny Access to this computer from the network to be set for administrators. The system translated that to DenyNetworkLogonRight = *S-1-5-32-544.

The system has converted our plain text request into this instruction. The SID shown here is simply a translation from the list of well known SIDs for Administrator.

What’s inside a Backup-GPO?

Let’s back up our example GPO using the Backup-GPO command in powershell:

This creates a file structure within the Administrator’s temp folder. It creates a folder with a newly created random guid (referred to as the Backup ID). The original GPO’s GUID {28AA0345-4804-4CE9-A41D-F7C89D5D5BD3} is stored in the backup as “GpoID” and can be seen in  the results of the command above (and in some of the GPO’s backed up files – more on that in a moment).

The backed up GPO has been saved under the new ID Folder name of {43E048D3-ECC6-4F29-AF9D-CF464EEF4CD5}.

Be aware that there are two extra hidden XML files that get created after running a Backup-GPO command. The first file is outside the GUID folder at the folder where the command ran, The file is called Manifest.xml and is very important if you wish to import the GPO somewhere else.

The manifest.xml file is quite ugly. It is in XML, but it will probably show as one big long line of unbroken text. Here’s a version of our manifest.xml (encoding is UTF-8) with wordwrap turned on in Notepad:

In short, the Manifest.xml file is used by the import-gpo routine to provide instructions on where GPOs that have been backed up can be found. It also contains information on the domain and domain controller it was backed up from. You will also find the time and the display name of the original GPO. Each GPO backed up will be found inside a <BackupInst> tag set.

As mentioned earlier, there is another hidden file. This file is in the GUID folder and called bkupinfo.xml. It looks remarkably similar to the Manifest file with one less tag. The first tag <backups> is not present – The Backups tag is only found in the manifest file and is used to encapsulate each GPO that can be found at the backed up folder location along with its associated GUID/ID pair. In our case, we only have one GPO, so the file looks almost identical (without the <Backups> tag).

NOTE: For this file to be able to be imported, you must not break some tags over new lines or the import command will completely crash the powershell session; eg; The file formatted as below would cause the client to crash. You can remove the empty lines without a problem.

The purpose of the SecuritGroups section is so that if you have custom user/group names inside your policy, they can be transformed if imported into a new domain. Be aware that the entire SecurityGroups section MUST be on a single unbroken line otherwise Import-GPO will crash and terminate the current powershell session.

The purpose of the GroupPolicyCoreSettings is to capture some of the basic GPO settings, Domain, original GPO GUID (stored as ID) and any machine policies that are in use. In our example, we are only using the one policy for the Security section of our GPO – {827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}{803E14A0-B4FB-11D0-A0D0-00A0C90F574B}. This section MUST all be on a single unbroken line otherwise Import-GPO will crash and terminate the current powershell session.

In our example, we are actually only using the Extension highlighted in blue, so we really don’t need the other extensions for import-gpo to work. In our scenario, we could safely remove the other extensions below the extension highlighted in blue. Be aware that the entire GPO Extension lines MUST be in a continuous unbroken line otherwise Import-GPO will crash and terminate the current powershell session.

Finally, we have the gpttmpl.inf file that is stored in the same subfolder location as the live GPO. The file also is identical to what was present in SYSVOL. Be aware that this file MUST be encoded as UTF-16LE (Unicode).

To build our GPO to set just our User Rights assignment, the minimum number of files is 4 (2 hidden):

Manifest.xml in the root of the folder where the backup was created (outside the GUID folder) – hidden. backup.xml inside the root of the GUID folder bkupinfo.xml inside the root of the GUID folder – hidden. GptTmpl.inf in the same subfolder structure as the oriignal real live GPO (<Guid>\DomainSysvol\GPO\Machine\microsoft\windows nt\SecEdit)

The structure looks like this:

The Backup.inf file

What if I told you… we could build this all out and remove most of the values present in the backup.inf and still import fine with import-gpo ? Tune in next week for the next part in this series to learn more. I’ll put together some example template files.

In the mean time, here’s a sneak peak at the script that will be discussed: https://github.com/Jigsolving/powershell/blob/main/User%20Rights%20Assignment%20GPO/create-customURAGPO.ps1

Happy GPOing.

A full list of User Rights Assignment

The table below lists all the User Rights Assignments and their translated constant values. Each Policy setting is linked to a page over at Microsoft (***except one – there seems to be an error over there).

Notes: *You MUST specify at least Administrator for this right ** Administrators and SERVICE MUST be granted this right *** The associated description for this right is missing over at Microsoft at time of writing.

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Calendar Folder Permissions Powershell

Calendar Folder Permissions Powershell . It lets the admins add, change or remove the calendar permissions in office 365 for each user as well as multiple. Getting a user's calendar folder permissions in exchange via powershell is pretty straight forward as you can just use the standard :\\calendar.

What can powershell do to assist in managing file and folder permissions? An organization/tenant administrator can grant access to any user calendar or a shared mailbox using.

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First step is that we need to connect to exchange online using powershell.

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There are a number of ways that powershell makes this process easier.

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To get calendar permission we will need to add :\calendar to after the userprincipalname.

The following instructions describe how to centrally customize calendar permissions on an exchange server from 2010 to 2019 using powershell.

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List Azure role assignments using Azure PowerShell

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Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) is the authorization system you use to manage access to Azure resources. To determine what resources users, groups, service principals, or managed identities have access to, you list their role assignments. This article describes how to list role assignments using Azure PowerShell.

We recommend that you use the Azure Az PowerShell module to interact with Azure. See Install Azure PowerShell to get started. To learn how to migrate to the Az PowerShell module, see Migrate Azure PowerShell from AzureRM to Az .

If your organization has outsourced management functions to a service provider who uses Azure Lighthouse , role assignments authorized by that service provider won't be shown here. Similarly, users in the service provider tenant won't see role assignments for users in a customer's tenant, regardless of the role they've been assigned.

Prerequisites

• PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell or Azure PowerShell

List role assignments for the current subscription

The easiest way to get a list of all the role assignments in the current subscription (including inherited role assignments from root and management groups) is to use Get-AzRoleAssignment without any parameters.

List role assignments for a subscription

To list all role assignments at a subscription scope, use Get-AzRoleAssignment . To get the subscription ID, you can find it on the Subscriptions blade in the Azure portal or you can use Get-AzSubscription .

List role assignments for a user

To list all the roles that are assigned to a specified user, use Get-AzRoleAssignment .

To list all the roles that are assigned to a specified user and the roles that are assigned to the groups to which the user belongs, use Get-AzRoleAssignment .

List role assignments for a resource group

To list all role assignments at a resource group scope, use Get-AzRoleAssignment .

List role assignments for a management group

To list all role assignments at a management group scope, use Get-AzRoleAssignment . To get the management group ID, you can find it on the Management groups blade in the Azure portal or you can use Get-AzManagementGroup .

List role assignments for a resource

To list role assignments for a specific resource, use Get-AzRoleAssignment and the -Scope parameter. The scope will be different depending on the resource. To get the scope, you can run Get-AzRoleAssignment without any parameters to list all of the role assignments and then find the scope you want to list.

This following example shows how to list the role assignments for a storage account. Note that this command also lists role assignments at higher scopes, such as resource groups and subscriptions, that apply to this storage account.

If you want to just list role assignments that are assigned directly on a resource, you can use the Where-Object command to filter the list.

List role assignments for classic service administrator and co-administrators

To list role assignments for the classic subscription administrator and co-administrators, use Get-AzRoleAssignment .

List role assignments for a managed identity

Follow these steps:

Get the object ID of the system-assigned or user-assigned managed identity.

To get the object ID of a user-assigned managed identity, you can use Get-AzADServicePrincipal .

To list the role assignments, use Get-AzRoleAssignment .

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