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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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User Account Control: Disable Admin Approval Mode for a specific user

We have a Windows 2008R2 server that runs our build scripts. At the moment, it is not possible to fix our scripts so that they could run without elevation. Please don't bother. It is currently more viable to risk breaking the machine or opening a…
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difference between windows 7 (64bit)enterrprise and windows 7 (64bit)professional Unable to create folder under c:\Program Files

This is related to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4721604/windows-7-64bit-win32-api-to-sacrificerelegate-administrative-privileges-for Posting here to get more idea about UAC with respect windows 7 variants I have two machines. a - Uses…
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Windows 7 UAC approved / unapproved list

Problem: Not able to print reports in CRM because of UAC block. Notes: A user with local admin clicked no to the UAC prompt to install the Report Viewer in CRM while printing a report. The prompt was for a program named "SQL Server Reporting…
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Elevating Windows installer in Vista

Vista requires elevated rights for installers which install drivers or other system items. Pointsec has one of these installers with the problem that the installer itself does not request elevation so the elevation must be granted to it…
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New domain workstations, UAC prompt only cleared by ADDC main "Administrator" password

For the first time, I'm able to add new Windows workstations to my domain. [For years we had a "standalone" 2k server, not a DC, and all our workstations were Windows Home] Now I have some new Windows 7 Pro workstations I would like to join to the…
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How do I elevate privileges when running appcmd from a nant task?

We are using a Windows 7 box as build server. As part of our continuous integration process I would like to stop and start an IIS 7 website. I have tried doing this from the command line using appcmd: appcmd start site "my website" However, this…
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How do I start an elevated process with schtasks.exe?

GUI vs Command-Line The task scheduler GUI provides an option to run the scheduled task in an elevated context ("Run with highest privileges"), e.g. I cannot find a corresponding flag for schtasks.exe. The closest thing I can find is to export an…
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Permission issues with administrator account on Windows Server 2012 R2 -- cannot create new files and need elevated privileges to edit files

Have a domain account and a local account. Both are administrators -- they are part of the administrators group. For some odd reason, something must have gotten corrupted as accounts require elevated privileges to edit or rename existing files and I…
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Rebuilt SBS 2003 domain, Windows 7 client UAC now asks for username/password

I have come into work this morning after Christmas and find that the Windows Small Business 2003 Domain server has been rebuilt. The domain name remains the same, though inevitably any security identifiers will have been changed. My machine has been…
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UAC with install automation: SCCM or Powershell Remoting

I am trying to get my head around the best approach for managing UAC. What I WANT: Regular users are not Local Admins and have somewhat elevated UAC. Special "Install" user is Local Admin but not Domain Admin, has permissions for install resources…
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File Share files wont execute

I have a Windows Server 2016 which is hosting a small file share. I have full control of the fileshare (from the root drive to every file) and even the "everyone" group have permission to execute files. There are no deny permissions. I'm able to…
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Initialize service on remote computer without LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy

I'm trying to use PsTools to configure remote computers. When I tried to initialize a Ps service at the remote computer for the first time, I got an Access is denied. error, even when authenticated as an administrator account. Some websites…
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Windows - Fine-grained administrator permissions

Whenever the Windows UAC pop-up shows up to grant a program administrator rights there is just a Yes/No answer. Is there any way to limit what a program can do when run as administrator. Most programs do not need all priviledges, but just a little…
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Installer file not launching with Administrative privileges in Windows 10

I just performed two brand new (clean) installs of Windows 10 Pro (v1709 - latest release, with all Windows Updates) on two different PCs. I joined them to my Domain, then logged in as the Domain administrator and began to install programs. On one…
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User account control Windows - Run as administrator broken

So far, this issue occurs on 3 different systems. Windows 10, Server 2012 and Server 2016 (I suspect this is also the case on windows 8 as server 2012 is basically the same thing but not used it). State: GPO enabled for UAC GPO set UAC to never…
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