User Account Control and WMI

Starting with Windows Vista, under User Account Control (UAC) access-token filtering can affect which operations are allowed in WMI namespaces or what data is returned. Under UAC, all accounts in the local Administrators group run with a standard user access token, also known as UAC access-token filtering. An administrator account can run a script with an elevated privilege—"Run as Administrator".

When you are not connecting to the built-in Administrator account, UAC affects connections to a remote computer differently depending on whether the two computers are in a domain or a workgroup. For more information about UAC and remote connections, see User Account Control and WMI.

Kapil Mathur [MSFT]

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 06, 2009
  In case one would like to start scripting this: http://www.slideshare.net/ddn123456/win32-introduction-to-perl-and-vista-s-feature-user-acceptance-control