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Questions tagged [uac]

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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Elevate to administrator privileges in CMD/Powershell without UAC?

I managed to change the port or remote desktop on my Windows Server 2016, using REGEDIT. But the problem began when I forgot to open that port in the firewall, so therefor I can no longer access remote desktop. The server is still running a website…
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On RDS, an application is asking for admin rights everytime

I have a 2012 R2 server with some RDS users. One of the applications, that is locally installed, is asking them for administrative permissions everythime it runs. This annoys my users and the only workaround I have found is to add them to the…
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Problems accessing shared folder in Windows Server 2008

In Windows Server 2008, I have a shared folder. For my username: NTFS permission (read/modify) Share Permissions (read/modify) Result when trying to access the share: I can traverse directory and read files, but I cannot write files. When I try to…
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Run specific program as administrator without UAC for specific group

I need to run program as administrator for all users in some group. Say that there is software name soft.exe and three users (ad-admin,user1-regular,user2-regular) in group userGroup. I need that in every connection to one of the users in…
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Windows Administrators cannot write files

I need two accounts on a Windows 2012 Server which can act as equally as administrators via Remote Desktop. Let's say I have created accounts Alice and Bob and they are both members of the the Group Administrators. Now Alice creates some folders on…
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How can we run a logon script to mount drives UAC?

We have a small environment where we are setting up mountable drives using a login.bat file, reason why we are doing this because our script first tests whether the folder is created for that user, and then if so makes a folder, then finally it…
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“WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied” when running a python script

I'm getting a "WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied" message when running a python script which attempts to make an https connection. The following error message is produced by python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line…
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IBM Domino 9.0.1 on Windows Server 2008: How to get rid of UAC when starting console

We are installing Domino Servers Version 9.0.1 64Bit on Windows Server 2008 R2 at the moment. Despite the servers in the past with the same operating system on these servers the UAC fires when clicking the server and the console- links on the…
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Make usergroups able to authorize User Account Control Prompt

I was wondering how you could make a group in Active Directory that is allowed to elevate/authorize programs with their credentials without setting them as the built in administrator? Windows server 2008
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EnableLinkedConnections for standard users

I've been having some difficulties with seeing local network maps using logon scripts on Server 2008 R2. For the sake of this conversation, I have two users, one is the domain administrator account admin and the other is a standard user user who…
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Small Business Server services will not start, and remote desktop and UAC are broken

Yesterday I began setting up a server with Windows Small Business Server 2008. All I am configuring it for right now is to be a domain controller and Exchange server. I completed the initial setup of SBS then started looking through different…
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Exe is requiring elevated privileges unless it is renammed

Running windows 7 sp1. I have an application that when installed via MSI requires the program's exe to run with elevated credentials. When I rename the exe it no longer runs with elevated privileges. Is this because of a manifest file that was…
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How to escalate to administrative token in Windows 7 using only CMD.exe

If I am not able to right click on CMD and run as administrator, or CTRL + Shift + Enter to run CMD, but I am using an administrative user account in a non-admin shell (CMD.exe); How in the world do I escalate to an admin from that shell? Runas…
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How to allow program updates without prompting UAC?

We have about 15-20 users who have this software installed. We have UAC enabled through GPO as you should, which means the software prompts for admin approval if a standard user trys to install it. Thats fine, they can call the help desk to have the…
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Elevate batch file via UAC

I have found the following routine which is supposed to allow a batch file to issue a UAC prompt and elevate itself to admin. Problem is on Server 2012 it doesn't seem to work for me. According to the notes I have read when a correct admin…
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