Initiate a Windows Service with Administrative Privileges utilizing the Windows Push Notification Service

Question

Greetings, developers!

I need to gather hardware, network, and software information, modify the registry, and execute PowerShell commands using a Windows service. This service should be triggered upon receiving a push notification from the Windows Push Notification Service.

I have developed a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application that integrates with Azure's notification service. Additionally, I've incorporated a background task that activates upon receiving a raw push notification.
I'm facing a roadblock in progressing because the background tasks lack administrator privileges to execute my tasks. I attempted to create a Windows Service to perform these tasks but am currently stuck in the process of packaging, installing, and initiating the service from the UWP application and background task.

I would greatly appreciate your assistance or guidance in resolving this matter. If you have any insights or suggestions, please feel free to share them. Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Hi @Kenny Roy E ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

According to your scenario, it is recommended that you use Desktop Bridge in UWP to start a win32 desktop application and let this desktop app (such as WPF) to gather hardware, network, and software information, modify the registry, and execute PowerShell commands in background.

It will package your UWP and WPF app together, and realize communication between UWP and WPF through Appservice. For more details, you can search Stefan Wick's blog “UWP with Desktop Extension” in your browser.

Thank you.

Junjie

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