Run powershell script without admin priv.

Question

I have a little script that users can run that restarts a few services and cleans temp files. Which works because they are administrators on their own PCs. That's changing, however, and the script will fail because Users don't have enough privilege to restart services.

The only solution I can think of is to have a scheduled task that is set to run as System with elevated priv, and what the user does instead is start the task. Is there another, more elegant, way to do this?

Answer 1

Hi @Daniel Kaliel ,

if the user doesn't have the privileges/permission to restart the service as a non-admin user you have 2 options:

Use a task with a privileged user like you described.

Assign the required privileges to the "non-admin" user -> How to Allow Non-Admin Users to Start/Stop Windows Service?

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Andreas Baumgarten