Temporarily Authenticate as an Administrator
Hello I am a tech for a school district we are running Win7 on all of our work stations and our servers are all 2008 R2. We run into a problem where a student is logged into a workstaion and we need to do something that requires administrator privilges (Add a printer, run a batch file, etc) and was wondering of there was a tool out there or a way to temporarily autheticate as an administrator so the students would not have to log off and let us log on for this to happen?
Answers (2)
In Windows 7 you can usually right-click on an item and there is an option to "Run as Administrator". If this does not work you can also run the item as a different user by Shift+right click on the object.
If all else fails, you can always use the "Runas" command on the command line.
use psexec in the pstools suite, run from a computer and remote run software on all the others as an admin.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx
Or you just do a switch user and login as admin and logoff, they log back in and they are in the same place they were before you logged in.
