Jira (PUP-1951) Unable to "Run Facter" or "Run Puppet Agent" from Start Menu on Windows 8/2012 - Requires .NET Framework 3.5 installed

[Joshua Cooper (JIRA)]

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Joshua Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Unable to "Run Facter" or "Run Puppet Agent" from Start Menu on Windows 8/2012 - Requires .NET Framework 3.5 installed is there a way to run the elevated puppet agent from the command line? It's complicated... The common scenario is that the user is a member of the local Administrators group, but is not the Administrator, and UAC is enabled. They have opened a shell running with their restricted process token, and want to execute the analog of sudo puppet agent. In that scenario, the answer is no, there is no official Windows way to elevate privileges, and that is why we vendor the aptly named elevate.exe. The one thing that users can do is to run a command as the Administrator user with full privileges: runas /User:Administrator "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\bin\puppet.bat\" agent" Note this isn't sudo in the *nix sense, instead it's "login as a different user and execute a command". So you have to know the Administrator password, not your own password. The other option, which is more like sudo, is to select "Start Command Prompt with Puppet", right-click, and "Run as administrator". This will execute a shell as you, but with full privileges. This is functionality we support today, but people often forget to right-click. It's the number 1 or 2 question we get on the mailing lists, along with filesystem redirection. So having the "Run Puppet" menu item that automatically elevates is a nice shortcut, though it does introduce a dependency, but only if you attempt to use the start menu item. We could just remove the Run Puppet menu item, switch Run Facter to run not elevated, and document how to do elevate puppet agent -td on the command line. Ethan Brown Rob Reynolds thoughts? Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1951 Unable to "Run Facter" or "Run Puppet Agent" from Start Menu on Windows 8/2012 - Requires .NET Framework 3.5 installed With Windows 2012, installing the puppet MSI (3.5.0-rc1 in this case) and then trying to run the "Run Facter" or "Run Puppet Agent" commands from the Start Menu will result in an error that it needs the .NET Framework version 3.5 in order to run and it cannot install it. However "Start Command Prompt With Puppet" works without issue. This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.