Get Process Owners

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re: Get Process Owners

function Get-PSOwner($searchString)
{	
    $foundProcess = ps $searchString
    if($foundProcess -eq $null) { return; }
    gwmi Win32_Process -Filter ("Handle={0}" -f $foundProcess.id ) | 
        % { Add-Member `
            -InputObject $_ `
            -MemberType NoteProperty `
            -Name Owner `
            -Value ($_.GetOwner().User) `
            -PassThru } | 
        select Name, Handle, Owner
}

The four minor changes I made to the @PowerTip script are: 1) it’s functionized, 2) the input is a search string for process (wildcards accepted), 3) it spits out the correct errors if the process can’t be found, and 4) the process handle is added to the results.

Download the script here: http://bitbucket.org/xcud/powershell-snippets/src/tip/Get-PSOwner.psm1