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May 13, 2015 13:15
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PowerShell snippet to run PowerShell code in an elevated (UAC) process. Taken from answers to this StackOverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7690994/powershell-running-a-command-as-administrator
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| If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) | |
| { | |
| #"No Administrative rights, it will display a popup window asking user for Admin rights" | |
| $arguments = "& '" + $myinvocation.mycommand.definition + "'" | |
| Start-Process "$psHome\powershell.exe" -Verb runAs -ArgumentList $arguments | |
| break | |
| } | |
| #"After user clicked Yes on the popup, your file will be reopened with Admin rights" | |
| #"Put your code here" |
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