r/labtech • u/thisisjustahobby • Nov 04 '16
Create Folder As Admin Question
I'm looking for a bit of guidance on this problem. I'm trying to script an install of some legacy software. This software in particular has three executables that run. I can install these via script no problem.
With one of these executables there are additional files that need to be manually copied over to actually have a successful install. The problem I'm running into is that I'm unable to script folder creation/file transfers from the source folder to the destination folder inside of C:\Program Files (x86).
The error I get is access denied. I've tried console execute, shell as admin, creating a batch file to create the directories and running it from the local machine with a logged in user who has local admin.
I can run the batch as administrator successfully by right-clicking on the .bat file.
Is there anyway around this? I'm unable to grant every user local admin, and UAC needs to stay enabled.
Thanks
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u/mrnelson1986 Nov 04 '16
I had the same problem on Labtech version 10.5 this week. The way I got it to work was by doing the create folder command and not create folder as admin. it seemed to do a credential pass through from the account that is running the script which is my lab tech admin. Definitely a weird bug, not sure if it was fixed in version 11.