Technical

When you are on Microsoft Windows Vista Platform. It is hard to create a script that use privilage command. One way is by use the command "Runas" as follow

C:\> Runas /user:Administrator cmd

However, the above command will ask for Administrator password before continue next process. It is not good to create automate script by using above command. After I googling for several week, I found the way to create batch script and it can use privilage command, no administrator password needs, but it will show UAC dialogbox ask to confirm an operation.

Type a text as follow in elevate.js

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// elevate.js -- runs target command line elevated
if (WScript.Arguments.Length >= 1) {
    Application = WScript.Arguments(0);
    Arguments = "";
    for (Index = 1; Index < WScript.Arguments.Length; Index += 1) {
        if (Index > 1) {
            Arguments += " ";
        }
        Arguments += WScript.Arguments(Index);
    }
    new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application").ShellExecute(Application, Arguments, "", "runas");
} else {
    WScript.Echo("Usage:");
    WScript.Echo("elevate Application Arguments");
}

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Then use it as below

• elevate cmd.exe "/t:fc /k cd /d c:\ && title ** Admin console ** "
• elevate mybatchscript.bat
• elevate route add ....... bra bra bra..

Hope this entry help all of you who want to create administrator script on vista.

Reference:

1. MSDN Blog [Ref]
2. Another way (By VBSCRIPT) [Ref]
3. Use joeware utility names cpua (Popular in a lot of webboard) [Ref]
4. Review and tools for administrator (Runas) [Ref]
5. Microsoft Script Center [Ref]

Posted by Scalopus+