Feb 29th, 2012 under Windows PowerShell Gist
The follow will prompt to add a given domain user/group to local admins on multiple boxes
<# ###################################################################### # AddToLocalAdmin - Adds the specified $strDomain\$strUser to the local # admins group on $strComputer ###################################################################### #> function AddToLocalAdmin($strComputer, $strDomain, $strUser) { $computer = [ADSI]("WinNT://" + $strComputer + ",computer") $group = $computer.psbase.children.find("Administrators") $members= $Group.psbase.invoke("Members") | %{$_.GetType().InvokeMember("Name", 'GetProperty', $null, $_, $null)} $members = $members | Where-Object {$_ -eq $strUser} if (!$members) { Write-Host ("{0} - Adding {1}\{2} to the local admins group" -f $strComputer, $strDomain, $strUser) $group.Add("WinNT://" + $strDomain + "/" + $strUser) } else { Write-Host ("{0} - {1}\{2} is already in local admins group" -f $strComputer, $strDomain, $strUser) } } $strDomain = Read-Host "Enter Domain" $strUser = Read-Host "Enter Username or Groupname" $quit = $false do { $strComputer = Read-Host "Enter System Name (or press enter to quit)" if ($strComputer.length -gt 0) { AddToLocalAdmin $strComputer $strDomain $strUser } else { $quit = $true } } while ($quit -ne $true)