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How can I get a script to run under a local admin context? - 5/4/2008 11:55:58 PM   
  midiman25

 

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Status: offline 		Hi I have a script that deletes user profiles from C:\Documents and settings on a XP workstation. I have placed it as a logoff script in the local group policy.

It works fine if you log off as the local administrator but it dosn't work for anyone else.

I was thinking that if I could get the script to run as the local computers administrator each time then it would work for everyone.

Is there a way how I can do this? 

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RE: How can I get a script to run under a local admin c... - 5/5/2008 2:58:10 AM   
  ginolard


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Status: offline 		Off the top of my head I would say create a separate script to do it and then, using your logoff script, create a Scheduled Task using SCHTASKS.EXE to delete the profile.  I say SCHTASKS because it has the /RUN switch to execute immediately and the /RU switch to run the task under a different account (e.g. SYSTEM)

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RE: How can I get a script to run under a local admin c... - 5/5/2008 6:05:19 AM   
  midiman25

 

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Status: offline 		Thanks but the problem I have is this.

Presently we use a MS tool called DelProf to delete the profiles. We create a scheduled task and have it call DelProf every 30mins using the local administrator security context.

I want to get around this by using Group Policy on our Domain.

I want to run the script in the logoff section and have it run in the security context of the target workstations local administrator. 

Can this be done without having to create a scheduled task?

I need to say this.

1 Script run at logoff
2 Run as the this user account
3 Delete profiles 

I can get 1 and 3 to work but not 2.

Please help.  

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RE: How can I get a script to run under a local admin c... - 5/5/2008 7:12:52 AM   
  dm_4ever


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Status: offline 		What if you make it part of the machine's logoff....if I am not mistaken, this will run under "System" which should have more than enough rights.

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RE: How can I get a script to run under a local admin c... - 5/5/2008 9:15:12 PM   
  midiman25

 

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Status: offline 		Do you mean part of the computer shutdown?

The problem is that our work machines are on most of the time. So unless the PC was restarted the script would never run. The machines are used by our employee base and you can get upto 100 profiles on a machine in a couple of days.

This equates to a very slow pc hence why I want to clean up the profiles asap.

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RE: How can I get a script to run under a local admin c... - 5/5/2008 10:48:46 PM   
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Status: online 		Why not set the PC up to use default profiles?  That way everyone uses the same profile and you won't have to to worry about deleting extra ones.

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RE: How can I get a script to run under a local admin c... - 5/6/2008 11:03:06 PM   
  Rischip


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Status: offline 		I would look up instsrv and srvany. Verify that you have a working script that will delete profiles when logged in under the admin account. Then install it as a service running under cscript. Have the script look for active  "Explorer" processes. If none exist then go through the delprof routine.

You cannot delete a profile you are logged into. Therefore you cannot run this as a logoff script. However as mentioned it would work as a machine shutdown/startup script. If I had to choose between those two locations I would choose startup. At shutdown there could be issues with profiles that still have hives loaded, although I believe delprof accounts for that.

Scheduled Tasks would also work, but when do you schedule it? If a user is logged in the script would have to account for that and avoid deleteing the in use profile.

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