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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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How to make UAC ask for username and password every time?

if i start a CMD with elevated rights the UAC asks for the password of my current user, which is only a normal user. So i need to switch the user under "weitere Optionen" (more choices) If i start a ...
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Giving Select Windows Domain Users Symbolic Link Privilege

I would like to setup select users on our domain to have the ability to create symbolic links on local NTFS drives and network shares without needing to run as Administrator, as part of an application ...
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Almost every administrative action is prevented with "access denied" on a Windows Server 2008 R2

On a Server 2008 R2 (member of a domain but not a domain controller) we suddenly can't perform any administrative task. Every action (like net stop ..., whoami, ...) is denied with an access denied ...
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smart card for UAC only

I'm in the process of configuring USB Yubikeys as a smart card for our company so that staff can elevate to an admin account (added to the computer's local administrators group) by simply inserting ...
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Restricted Groups not working with UAC

I have a Restricted Group in a group policy in an organizational unit called org_unit_a. This organizational unit has all the computers. The restricted group is My_domain\Workstation Admins Has ...
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UAC-account-users can't see their mounted network-drives

I wrote a few login batches in the Group Policy Management which mount specified devices to specified usergroups. The batches work as they should as long UAC is disabled. My problem is that the UAC-...
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Automatically decline UAC prompt for specific binary and/or path

Is it possible to automatically decline UAC prompts from a specific binary or path ? (As if user clicked "no" or as if GPO was set to automatically decline)
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windows 10 screen turns black on uac prompt and user gets signed off

I have an to me absolutely unknown behavior on one machine with windows 10. If the user wants to run a setup or another executable and windows wants to ask the user for really executing and/or for ...
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windows-10 How to permit application execution instead of error "This app has been blocked by your system administrator"?

When trying to run an EXE I'm getting the error "This app has been blocked by your system administrator". How can I configure the Software Restriction Policies to allow the user to install the ...
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UAC never asks for admin password, denies access on admin-related tasks, on client computer. How to fix UAC?

I have a client computer, Windows 7 64 bit, connected to our network. The user who signs on is not an admin (according to our active directory). It's having credential issues which I'm trying to fix ...
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Windows 10 UAC changing for one specific user

I have one user who was recently upgraded to Windows 10 on a laptop that re-enters our domain every day. I have checked on the AD side and notice nothing restrictive about his permissions or which OUs ...
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How do I allow pass through access to a new shared drive on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box?

I am trying to allow access to a shared drive on our server (running windows server 2008 R2) so that users (running windows 7) can access the files on it. However, whenever they try to connect, it ...
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Ping doesnt work as limited user

This is the issue: All programs works fine in the network. A Command line console, elevated with UAC, can make a ping and everything works fine. A command line, runnning as standar user, says ...
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task scheduler - run interactively as any user with admin credentials

I'm trying to deploy a scheduled task with a GPO. The task is set to run at login and executes a batch file, which then executes an EXE file. However, I also need it to be interactive and run with ...
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NTFS Permissions will not inherit for one file

I have a bizarre issue that seems to be UAC related but I can't figure it out. On the face of it, it seems to be the same issue as this, but it's not quite. I have a folder which contains the files ...
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reporting services 2008 R2 shows UAC for printing ActiveX after .NET 4.0 installation

Installed the latest updates on the server. Now every time I try to print from a reporting service website the UAC opens.. I already tried to reduce security within IE9 to the minimum, but with no ...
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best practice of UAC: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode

I found the follwing regarding UAC Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode: Malware can present an imitation of the secure desktop, but when the User Account ...
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0x80004005 when performing administrative tasks

We have an AD network, and a group of users has higher privileges than the standard, configured via GPO in Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > ...
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Error 1332 while changing folder permissions with cacls

I want to change the user permissions of the folder C:\Program Files\MyProgram so that every user is allowed to write to that folder. I am able to set the corresponding user rights manually within the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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). ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Make Programs and Features 'Change' button prompt for authentication

I am looking for a way to have the 'Change' button in Programs and Features pop a UAC authentication dialog such as when installing an application for the first time. Currently, we don't deploy ...
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Install Tomcat6 as a service windows vista

I currently am installing Tomcat6 as a windows service that will be controlled by a user account that cannot login, nor is the account a member of any groups. The issue I am seeing is that the ...
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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 ...
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