Snapin Questions

[Joe Schmitt]

Use the template feature and select batch script.

[Joe Gill]

@Joe-Schmitt Thanks Joe! I’ll give that a go!

[Joe Gill]

@Joe-Schmitt Alright, I searched and searched and tried and tried but I cannot for the life of me figure out the how to get a script to run with elevated privileges. The command structure works, it just won’t run unless you are an admin. Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks!

Cheers,

Joe

[Wayne Workman]

@Joe-Gill all snapins run as SYSTEM, which has the highest authority over the local system, more than the admin account has.

What part of the script needs admin?

[Mentaloid]

@Joe-Gill

W10_edu_act.cmd

c:
cd \windows\system32
c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe //B c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms kms7:1688 >> c:\SnapinLogs\W10Activate.log
c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe //B c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ato >> c:\SnapinLogs\W10Activate.log

.cmd files are handled by the fog client without any run with parms, and you wont have any local permissions issue.

I don’t use a KMS server, so I am unaware of if it would require domain credentials. I would think the machine would have to be domain joined though. I also was under the impression that you can set the KMS details as part of the domain policy.

[Joe Gill]

@Wayne-Workman Interesting… It just doesn’t ever seem to run. I can run the script aside from fog using “run as admin” and it does just fine. If I run it without elevated privileges it does not seem to do the command right.

[Wayne Workman]

@Joe-Gill Have you tried putting in your key for a single host in the Product Key field, and seeing if the fog client will activate windows that way?

[Joe Gill]

@Mentaloid I’m very green on a lot of this stuff so bear with me. I would think what you have right there should work just fine.

I’ll be working on all of this stuff a little later this week. I’ll give that a try.

[Joe Gill]

@Wayne-Workman Not yet. It’s on my list. LOL!

[Joe Gill]

@Wayne-Workman I have done this with the MAK key. That works fine. We just wanted to switch over to KMS. Which with our script snap-in it seems to be activating just fine now. I still need to refine it though. I think I’m going to add @Mentaloid’s suggestions to my existing script. I do believe that will finalize automation.