While running powershell using invoke activity it throws exception "windows powershell run as administrator"

[Mahashankaripazhani (Mahashankari)]

Invoke Power Shell: Access is denied. To run this cmdlet, start Windows PowerShell with the “Run as administrator” option.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @Mahashankaripazhani

Supported by this thread, I was able to make a simple process:

Invoking powershell in administrator mode

If you call a script rather than a command I believe that you can add the first line which will elevate privileges to administrator… Try this link for starters … https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7690994/powershell-running-a-command-as-administrator

However, running this will prompt the UAC (which would need to be disabled for this to work, which is highly not recommanded).

Actually, there is a solution to it (credit to out of our awesome uipathers). See his explanation below:

I use the activity invoking a script. If the script tries to invoke:
Start-Process notepad.exe -Verb runAs
then the UAC dialog will appear defeating the purpose.

If the script instead says:
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential(“admin”, (ConvertTo-SecureString “Passw0rd1” -AsPlainText -Force))
Start-Process notepad.exe -Credential $credential

then all is well and the process is run as an administrator without a UAC dialog coming up.

This method requires a prior relaxation of the ability to execute scripts using “Set-ExecutionPolicy”.

Link to .xaml and ps1 script here:
run_as_admin.zip (1.7 KB)

[shreyaank]

Hi @loginerror ,

can you please help with the packages that you have used in that particular process? Ive been trying t use this xaml, but it shows invalid activity

[shreyaank]

Hi ,

I tried running your process. It throws me this error.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @shreyaank

You’re right, you need to make sure the path of the invoke activity is in the correct folder. By default the zip didn’t contain that folder, whoops

This change should fix it:
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[ndeye_fatou_Diouf]

Hello
@Hiba_B
Can you help me please
when i run the script i get the following message but user and password are good. Do i need some conf before ? on my powershell i set some ExecutionPolicy like process and currentuser as Bypass.