Objectify the results of Qwinsta - powershell

Question

I am trying to write a script that will give me back as an object the results from qwinsta.
The code of my script is this:
function Get-QWinsta {
$queryResults = (qwinsta /Server:$ENV:COMPUTERNAME | ForEach-Object { ( ( $_.Trim() -replace "\s+",",") ) } | ConvertFrom-Csv)
$queryResults | ForEach-Object { if ( $_.SESSIONNAME -match 'da-' ) {
$_.USERNAME = $_.SESSIONNAME; $_.SESSIONNAME = $null; $_.STATE = $_.ID; $_.ID = $null
}
}
$RDPSESSIONS = $queryResults | ForEach-Object {
[PSCustomObject]#{
UserName = if ( $_.USERNAME -match '\d' ) { $_.USERNAME = $null } else { $_.USERNAME }
SessionName = if ( $_.SESSIONNAME -match 'services|console' ) { $_.SESSIONNAME = $null } else { $_.SESSIONNAME }
SessionID = $_.ID
SessionState = if ( $_.ID -match 'Disc' ) { $_.STATE = 'Disconnected' } else { $_.STATE }
}
}
return $RDPSESSIONS
}
and the output is this:
UserName SessionName SessionID SessionState
-------- ----------- --------- ------------
Disc
Conn
Admin01 Disc
Admin02 rdp-tcp#41 4 Active
rdp-tcp Listen
However the above is not a real object and what I would really want to have as output is something like this:
UserName SessionName SessionID SessionState
-------- ----------- --------- ------------
Admin01 Disc
Admin02 rdp-tcp#41 4 Active
Plus if I could something like this:
> $user1 = (Get-Qwinsta).UserName
> Write-Output $user1
> Admin01
that would be a bonus.
I have read all the similar post here and everywhere on the internet and none of them worked perfectly fine or did what I want to achieve.

Answer 1

You can get the qwinsta results as custom objects like this:
function Get-QWinsta
{
param ($ComputerName = "$env:COMPUTERNAME")
qwinsta /server:$ComputerName |
ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "\s{2,18}",","} |
ConvertFrom-Csv
}
> Get-QWinsta -ComputerName 'Server1'
This gives a custom object for each entry in the output:
SESSIONNAME : services
USERNAME :
ID : 0
STATE : Disc
TYPE :
DEVICE :
SESSIONNAME : console
USERNAME :
ID : 1
STATE : Conn
TYPE :
DEVICE :
SESSIONNAME : session1
USERNAME : User1
ID : 23
STATE : Active
TYPE : wdica
DEVICE :
SESSIONNAME : session2
USERNAME : User2
ID : 25
STATE : Active
TYPE : wdica
DEVICE :
Which can be manipulated like other objects. For example, shown in a table:
> Get-QWinsta -ComputerName 'Server1' | Format-Table -Autosize
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
----------- -------- -- ----- ---- -------
services 0 Disc
console 1 Conn
session1 User1 23 Active wdica
session2 User2 25 Active wdica
session3 User3 41 Active wdica
Or, output just specific properties:
> (Get-QWinsta -ComputerName 'Server1').UserName
User1
User2
User3