I believe I read somewhere that backwards compatibility to the old document and settings type baths is tied to Uac being on. If of no redirects,
Can't swear on that but I do remember reading it On Thursday, 30 June 2011, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Whoops. That last paragraph should read: > > The real kicker comes if you set these permissions on the root of a drive > (icacls E:\ /grant administrators:f /inheritance:r). In that case, you don’t > even > get a prompt to add permissions. It’s just flat out impossible to access > that drive from explorer.exe. > > > > > From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:51 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Win7 UAC - is your on or off? > > > > I would be thrilled if I could right-click and run as admin for explorer. > Here’s a situation, I’d love to have a solution to. > > Log in as a member of the administrators group, not the actual account named > Administrator. > From an elevated cmd prompt, run the following commands. > > md C:\BrokenUAC > icacls C:\BrokenUAC /grant administrators:f /inheritance:r > > Now, try and open that folder in explorer. Use any combination of runas you > like, but you won’t be able to open it without windows prompting you to add > your > specific username to the ACE. I don’t want all these extra permissions > scattered around the hard drive. This will happen for every admin that tries > to access these folders and makes a mess of things. > > The real kicker comes if you set these permissions on the root of a drive > (icacls \BrokenUAC /grant administrators:f /inheritance:r). In that case, you > don’t > even get a prompt to add permissions. It’s just flat out impossible to > access that drive from explorer.exe. > > From: Steven Peck > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:57 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Win7 UAC - is your on or off? > > > We leave it on on clients and servers. We do have a few individual engineers > who disable it on their servers. I could understand it if it was on specific > server/application combinations but they want it off on all their systems. > > > > > > That group seems to consistently be the one with odd issues and other random > occurances. It's probably not related to turning off UAC but evidently right > clicking and choosing 'run as administrator' or clicking on the UAC prompt is > challenging. > > > > > > Steven Peck > > > http://www.blkmtn.org > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Same here, but I do turn it off on some servers. > > > > From: Sean Rector [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:39 AM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Win7 UAC - is your on or off? > > > > > I keep it on > and I’m not an admin on my machine. > > > Sean Rector, MCSE > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > -- Good news everyone, you have just received and e-mail from me! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
