AudioDeviceCmdlets VS RunAsUser

I worked with an issue close to this awhile ago when I needed to set a default audio device within a DSC (don't ask, it was dumb). Is the Get-AudioDevice cmdlet from the https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets repo? That was the one I ended up using, I found a bug in it with the way it was enumerating devices and had to dig into the C# underneath.

It uses a set of a cool set of PowerShell cmdlets named AudioDeviceCmdlets to query for the audio devices. Docs and installation instructions can be found in its GitHub repo. There are multiple ways of getting the list of audio devices on Windows, AudioDeviceCmdlets made it very easy to do.

Since my last update i have followed the links and advice that u/MasterChiefmas, u/PajamaDuelist, u/spyingwind, and u/ps1_missionary replied with. While none of their information directly helped, it helped me find the rabbit trails to get to this point. as of right now this script will control the remote audio devices but it will not allow you to play audio out of the remote pc speakers. if you run the contents of the invoke command in start-tone in a admin powershell window on your account it will work so i know the code is sound (pun intended). while doing researching this issue i came across AudioDeviceCmdlets from https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets and this helped solve many of the issues i had with controlling and unmuting audio remotely. However i still have issues getting audio to play remotely.

For Windows, aside from the other mention of NirCmd, there's also the AudioDeviceCmdlets PowerShell module (source here).

I just want to clarify that only one of the source files contains code that I wrote. https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets/blob/8a02ed8924d44e57338488e38927f35522d7853b/SOURCE/AudioDeviceCmdlets.cs

NIRcmd is great example, but I would add also AudioDeviceCmdlets https://github.com/frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets And if you want a physical switch, we should soon release the one which we developed last year https://youtu.be/2HNjlMSk42c

Managing multiple EQ profiles for different audio devices can be fuddly with EqualizerAPO, this PowerShell tool allows you to easily switch playback devices and audio device profiles among any number of devices using the AudioDeviceCmdlets module.

Theres a module for that, RunAsUser

have you tried using the RunAsUser powershell module? I had luck with a similar situation using this module https://github.com/KelvinTegelaar/RunAsUser

I’m not sure the shortest path from Python to .NET stuff but a better more windows native approach might be to do something like https://github.com/KelvinTegelaar/RunAsUser using .NET to run stuff with system permissions in the user context?

I need to be able to execute commands in the interactive user context. To that end I'm using Invoke-AsCurrentUser from KelvinTegelaar/RunAsUser. This doesn't work if started from Tanium, but works in psexec /s or task scheduler.

We deploy scripts as system and use runasuser module for such.