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Is there a way to execute a program with elevated privileges as a non-admin user in Win10?

I am trying to automate a few things with a few scripts. One of the users in my PC has no admin privileges (I have a "Work" user and a "Gaming" user and I don't want the latter to be admin by default). However sometimes I need to grant…
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Is there any way to check if password is compliant for a standard user account as per gpo settings via powershell

The concern I have is that I can't store the user's password anywhere. As soon as the user enters the password, I want to validate if it's compliant with the password policy settings on that machine. I came across net commands to retrieve related…
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Installing an Application without Admin Privileges in Win 10

I have developed a VSTO project for MS excel. I need to create setup file that runs without admin privileges in Window 10. Any method to achieve this?
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Creating Firewall rule for a process running in a Non-admin user account

I have a basic requirement - to run my application smoothly on Windows by creating firewall rules when prompted, that has windows firewall turned-ON. When I log in to my system as an user with Admin privileges when I run my application the first…
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Running .bat commands on a Jenkins slave with restricted execution permissions

I am running a Jenkins slave on a restricted environment. This environment will only allow me to execute files in a specific directory. The problem I have is running simple batch commands. The slave's java.io.tmpdir being AppData/Local/Temp,…
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How does COM CoCreateInstanceEx try to load types (for non-admin win user)?

I have a very complicated problem that occurs only for non-admin windows user. I run a script S that resides on the desktop and calls a function in a C++ dll. Then the flow is as follows: My C++ dll creates a Delphi process, sending it a GUID as a…
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Wix - install as non-admin and add to GAC

I am writing an installer using WIX, and I need to add a .dll file to the GAC. I use: This works perfectly fine for the Administrator user,…
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$ENV:USERNAME in SCCM Powershell script

Ok, I saw a answer here about this very same question but I'm not understanding it and what is the next step. The original question What am I supposed to do if I want this line to work $from = "$dirFiles\config.xml" $to =…
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Installing a windows service that can be started by a non-admin user

I have developed a solution which includes a Windows Service, using Visual Studio 2012. VS 2012 has removed the ability to create an installer, so I’m using a 3rd party tool for installer generation (WiX) which integrates nicely into Visual Studio.…
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Allow Non-Admin to Update .Config File In Program Files

I am busy working on a piece of software which stores a .config file within the installation folder (C:/Program Files/...). This config file needs to be updated when the software is used which currently works fine when the user has Admin rights,…
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