UAC doesn't apply to the built-in administrator account (the 500 SID). If the box was a DC, then the "Administrator" account would be the Domain\Administrator account. Otherwise, I can't think of why you'd not be seeing UAC prompts...
Cheers Ken From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2009 4:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UAC--argh... I think I remember this happening at my house. If i logged in as a user with domain admin priviliges, I recieved all sorts of UAC prompt errors, and creating file shares was a PITA. When I logged in as the domain admin, it all was quite fine. DOMAIN\Administrator. No UAC issues at all. Not sure if that applies here or not..... ________________________________ From: Miller Bonnie L. [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UAC--argh... Hear hear! And thanks to everyone else who chimed in to help out. After some thinking, I believe this may be something we can set in our default domain user profile as well. From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UAC--argh... An amazing thread his, all coming down to a friggin' checkbox. I can't count the hours I've spent troubleshooting various things over the years just to find it's a checkbox someplace, or an option down some menu list I've never used before... David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UAC--argh... Wow Phillip-That was EXACTLY the problem!!!! Now, when I right-click explorer and run as administrator, it does exactly what I think it should. So no, apparently they haven't changed that behavior (that I didn't know about-didn't really do this much before Vista/08). Where do I send gifts??? This is going to make my life so much easier... <does a happy dance...> -B From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UAC--argh... I'm curious. Sure I have an '08 machine on the test bench but its disconnected and i cant fire it up for a few days. At least in XP, to be able to get an elevated explorer from a non-admin account, you have to have the admin account explorer set to run explorer file browser windows in a separate process. Otherwise, explorer stupidly recycles the user account you are currently logged onto as. Has this been fixed? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 ________________________________ From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UAC--argh... We, as administrators, need to get more in tune with the OS again. This is not like the days of NT 4 and Win 98. I blew hours last week because I forgot something as simple as what Carl just said. Jon On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: MS really needs to more clearly separate object permissions errors from errors generated as a result of lack of elevation, IMO. -sc From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UAC--argh... Or elevate a command prompt, then type "explorer" at the command line and now you have an elevated Explorer. Carl ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
