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UAC stands for User Account Control and is a security system present and enabled by default in Microsoft Windows (since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) running most tasks as non-administrator and requiring the user to confirm the actions that require administrator privileges.

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Why is my global security group being filtered out of my logon token?

While investigating the effects of filtered tokens on my file permissions, I noticed that one of my global security groups is being filtered in addition to the regular system-defined filtered groups. My Active Directory environment is a…
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Open Elevated "Administrator:" cmd prompt instead of "cmd prompt (Running as Administrator)"

If you open a command prompt with a runas command, you will see a window that shows (Running as some_user) In the title bar, but if you right click on cmd.exe and choose Run as Administrator you will get a window that has: Administrator cmd.exe In…
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Can a batch run as admin launch another batch as limited user?

I have a batch that is being run with administrative privileges on a Windows 7 machine. That batch has to run another batch, which should access a mapped network drive. However, network drives are only mapped for the non-administrator part of the…
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Elevated command prompt as another user

I'm running Windows 7 (Enterprise, x64 if it makes any difference) My account has admin privileges on this PC, but is a regular user on the domain. I have another user account that is a member of Domain Admins. Generally, I can run admin tools as…
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Are UAC prompts suppressed on Win7 over RDC?

I am testing an application on clean Win7 Enterprise VMs but I am seeing different UAC behavior between VMs reached over RDC than with physical machines running the same O/S. The VMs are hosted on Virtual Server 2005 R2. I am trying to determine if…
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IIS application pool and UAC

My system is Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. I need to run a site which is allowed to do some administrative tasks. I have created an AD user account and added it to all the required groups. The site's application pool runs with custom identity…
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Good reason for UAC on a server machine?

Given that accounts with login access to a server OS would usually be a systems administrator (or in general, has elevated privileges), is there a good reason to have User Access Control turned on? If not, why?
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Can UAC levels lower than max be turned off programatically?

I was recently told that if your UAC level is anything less than the maximum (always notify) then malicious programs can programatically lower your UAC settings, thereby rendering UAC useless. Now, I remember this being an issue in the Windows 7…
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Creating Separate GPOs for Win7 and Win10

(I should preface this by saying I recently shifted jobs and have come from a much smaller company with a mostly linux environment to a larger company with a very standard windows server environment, and I'm still catching up a bit when it comes to…
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Silently install MSI without disabling UAC

I have an MSI file which I produce that I need to install on a number of Windows 2008 machines as part of automated deployment process in a test environment. When I install the MSI by hand I get a UAC prompt which means that when I try to install…
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List of Privileges Considered for Standard User As "Additional Privileges" for Windows UAC

I am trying to understand some behavior I am seeing with Windows User Account Control (UAC). We have an application that is being run with the manifest requestedExecutionLevel highestAvailable.
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Windows 7: Having Underprivileged User Install and Alter Fonts

I've run into this huge issue with a graphic designer. They want to be able to install fonts they have downloaded. This user is a non-admin user on the local machine and a non-admin user on our network. I believe that User Access Control on the…
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How would you run an application off a network share so you can update application?

We have an internal desktop application which we have deployed to a network share. In that directory are subdirectories for each version, ie, z:\Apps\ApplicationX\1.0 z:\Apps\ApplicationX\2.0 z:\Apps\ApplicationX\2.1 I would like to put a shortcut…
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Is UAC Preventing write access to Programs Folder?

We have a legacy application on a number of client sites. In some cases clients need to have write access to a folder or two under the Program Files (x86) folder. As time goes on more and more of the clients are enabling UAC on the servers so we are…
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Is disabling UAC on a Windows 2008 server a bad idea?

We've just upgraded to Windows 2008 server, and I'm already getting really sick of approving dozens of UAC messages. I normally disable UAC on my personal Vista machines, but I'm reluctant to do this on our server. Is there any particular reason I…
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