https://pwsh.in/tags/system/Recent content in SYSTEM on Vibhu Bhatnagar — PowerShell & Infrastructure EngineerHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0530https://pwsh.in/posts/invoke-vbascurrentuser/Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0530https://pwsh.in/posts/invoke-vbascurrentuser/<p>If you have ever deployed a PowerShell script through Intune, a RMM agent, or Task Scheduler running as SYSTEM, you have hit this wall at least once: the script works perfectly when you run it interactively, but returns nothing — or the wrong thing — when deployed at scale.</p> <p>The reason is almost always the same. The script is collecting user-specific data. And SYSTEM is not the user.</p> <hr> <h2 id="the-problem-system-and-the-user-are-not-the-same-session">The Problem: SYSTEM and the User Are Not the Same Session</h2> <p>When Intune or your RMM agent executes a PowerShell script, it runs in the SYSTEM context. SYSTEM is a highly privileged account, but it is completely isolated from the interactive user session happening on the same machine at the same time.</p>