RE: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

[Joe Tinney]

I'd check out the links below regarding scripting and elevation. They
will allow your scripts to trigger UAC when necessary instead of just
flailing about. 

Initial article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.utilityspotlight.asp
x 

Updated article with full downloads:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.06.elevation.aspx 

Updated VBS script to assist with some issues when using these tools on
Windows 7
http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2009/01/21/the-elevation
-powertoys-and-windows-7.aspx 

-Original Message-
From: Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 1:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

I'm curious what everyone else is doing as far as UAC is concerned.
It seems to really get in the way of a lot of in-house scripts(we have
TONS of scripts).
We've played around with the 'runas' command, with 3rd party 'runas'
tools, etc, but it seems like all have issues somewhere.

So basically I'm curious what everyone else is doing before we give up
and turn off UAC.



Thanks in advance,
Jon

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Re: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

[Andrew S. Baker]

Are thees scheduled jobs? How are they being called?

I haven't had to turn off the UAC for scripting , nor would I be so
inclined.

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On Jun 16, 2010 1:55 PM, "Jon D"  wrote:

I'm curious what everyone else is doing as far as UAC is concerned.
It seems to really get in the way of a lot of in-house scripts(we have
TONS of scripts).
We've played around with the 'runas' command, with 3rd party 'runas'
tools, etc, but it seems like all have issues somewhere.

So basically I'm curious what everyone else is doing before we give up
and turn off UAC.



Thanks in advance,
Jon

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

[Jon D]

We've got hundreds of scripts that do anything you can imagine.
I'm having my intern do the initial research, so I don't have too many
specifics on which ones are doing it.
I know copying things to the system folders isn't working.
I know if we do a runas then it busts the abality to import into HKCU.
I think if we do a runas and then try to map a server drive we then
need to enter domain credentials which if scripting would be hard...
It seems running scripts off network drives is an issue.







On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Steven Peck  wrote:
> What are you doing that requires you to need to elevate permissions?
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jon D  wrote:
>> I'm curious what everyone else is doing as far as UAC is concerned.
>> It seems to really get in the way of a lot of in-house scripts(we have
>> TONS of scripts).
>> We've played around with the 'runas' command, with 3rd party 'runas'
>> tools, etc, but it seems like all have issues somewhere.
>>
>> So basically I'm curious what everyone else is doing before we give up
>> and turn off UAC.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jon
>>
>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
>> ~   ~
>>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

[Steven Peck]

What are you doing that requires you to need to elevate permissions?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Jon D  wrote:
> I'm curious what everyone else is doing as far as UAC is concerned.
> It seems to really get in the way of a lot of in-house scripts(we have
> TONS of scripts).
> We've played around with the 'runas' command, with 3rd party 'runas'
> tools, etc, but it seems like all have issues somewhere.
>
> So basically I'm curious what everyone else is doing before we give up
> and turn off UAC.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jon
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Re: Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

[Cameron]

There is a hotfix available from MS that addresses scripting issues. I had
to track it down because my Kix script wouldn't work correctly. After
applying the hotfix everything worked as it should. I'll see if I can track
it down.

Hope this helps.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Jon D  wrote:

> I'm curious what everyone else is doing as far as UAC is concerned.
> It seems to really get in the way of a lot of in-house scripts(we have
> TONS of scripts).
> We've played around with the 'runas' command, with 3rd party 'runas'
> tools, etc, but it seems like all have issues somewhere.
>
> So basically I'm curious what everyone else is doing before we give up
> and turn off UAC.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jon
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

Windows 7 UAC and Scripting -- What's everyone doing?

[Jon D]

I'm curious what everyone else is doing as far as UAC is concerned.
It seems to really get in the way of a lot of in-house scripts(we have
TONS of scripts).
We've played around with the 'runas' command, with 3rd party 'runas'
tools, etc, but it seems like all have issues somewhere.

So basically I'm curious what everyone else is doing before we give up
and turn off UAC.



Thanks in advance,
Jon

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~