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windows 7 dbc connection sqlanywhere 11

hi, I'm trying to connect from my ms windows 7 via the odbc administrator to a remote sybase sqlanywhere 11 database server. But I get not connection, I'm not sure which configure option I have to specify. server-name = ip address of remote database server? startline ? portnummer ? Thank you, best regards, Alex ...

A way to launch x applications as administrator automatically (Windows xp)

The problem is that in our clients their normal user doesn't have administrator privileges so when they have to install or update our programs they have to log again as administrator to install them and then log as their user which is cumbersome... As some updates are automatic the "run as" solution isnt a valid one... One good idea wo...

Psexec "run as (remote) admin"

Hi, I wrote some c# code that uses PSexe. I want it to run a remote exe on a machine connected to my LAN. That exe creates a new local user. When I run that exe locally on the remote machine (after right click --> "run as Admin") - it works fine. I don;t know how to simulate the right click --> "run as Admin" from Psexec. I have tried ...

SharePoint 2010 Unauthorized exception

Hi, I am trying to get search categories from the code (Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceApplication.Schema.AllCategories). However it throws me UnAuthorized exception( ThrowIfNotSearchAdmin) error. Has anybody faced and resolved this? Where to configure search administrator in SharePoint 2010? Thanks ...

How to install only Joomla site pages without administrator pages on a server

Hi, I have prepared my simple html website on my local pc. Now I want to put only the main website pages without administrator backend pages on server. I tried several queries on google but of no use. ...

General Question about Windows 7(Kiosk) Group Policy Lock down of Silverlight Out of Browser.

I'm hoping to lock down, a Windows 7 laptop into more or less a kiosk type mode. Basically login to Windows 7, automatically open up a silverlight out of browser application. It should also prevent the removal of the silverlight app. I can think of a few dirty ways to do this off the top of my head, I'm just hoping for a more holistic...

Administrator receives PermissionDenied error when issuing get-childitem in Powershell

I am trying to backup a drive from a laptop that is defunct. This drive was pulled from the machine and mounted in an external enclosure and connected to a desktop via USB. Laptop that the drive was pulled from is Windows 7 Pro, and the desktop I connected the laptop drive to is Windows 7 Ultimate. I am running PowerShell on the deskto...

How can I debug a local IIS service with Visual Studio running as a non-Administrator user?

I have installed Visual Studio 2008 and am running it as a non-Administrator user. I have a Web Application project I am developing and would like to debug it using Visual Studio. I can compile and also debug with "Visual Studio Development Server" without problems. But, when I select "Use Local IIS Web server" in my project propertie...

Visual Studio output file permissions?

I'am using Visual Studio 2010, how to set or automatically change owner of the output file from Visual Studio (such as executable file) to user other than administrator? all output files currently is owned by Administrator (due to Visual studio is launch by administrative privilege), so sometime I can't delete those files due to access ...

C# Validate an Administrator from Login information.

I'm having a bit of a problem with an application I am writing in C#. I can't seem to find a way to check if a user is an administrator just from their username and password. I haven't seen anything helpful for doing this elsewhere and all tries to attempting such with WindowsIdentity end up helpless. I am aware of UAC programming with W...

Joomla - Determining whether logged-in user is an Admin

I am having tons of fun working on a big project that was, for reasons hard to justify, based on Joomla! (which I don't mean to criticise, Joomla! is great, just not for the task I am faced with currently) and when I googled for a way of determining whether the currently logged-in user is an Admin, I found a post that quite boldly recomm...

Is there any way to add a program requiring Administrator Rights on Windows Vista/Seven to autorun?

My program asks user if he wants it to be added to autorun, and it requires administrator rights to perform its code properly (level is set to "requireAdministrator" through manifest). However, after adding it to autorun through registry, Windows Defender blocks its start on system start-up due to it requiring administrator rights (as i...

How do I check if my program is ran by user as administrator (Vista/Win7, C++)

I saw IsInRole method but I can't find information on how to use it with C++. ...

C#.NET: Acquire administrator rights?

Is it possible in a C#.NET application to request administrative rights on a Windows 7 PC? I want to be able to deploy the application via Click Once and have users use it to perform administrative tasks (in this case it is writing registry entries for the main application). ...

sharepoint admin does not have full control

Hi everyone, can anyone help me out here, my sharepoint 2010 admin does not have full control permission on the site collection for some reason, does anyone know how to fix that ? Thank you. ...

How to Detect IE7/IE8 "run as administrator" mode with Javascript

How to Detect IE7/IE8 "run as administrator" mode with Javascript? I have a html page that needs to be run in administrator mode. I can detect if it is ie8/7 and when that occurs I pop-up an alert saying the user must be in administrator mode for the page to work (because it runs an active-x that doesn't work other wise). That, howeve...

Checking for Administrator user login in non-English installations of windows

Hi! I have some small questions...I have a program that stores a list of users in a database and compares on program startup if the user is in the list or is an administrator before letting them use it. At the moment, the way I'm using to check if the user is an administrator is simply by comparing the username to a string constant calle...

Word automation does only work for administrator, or with a delay after creating word.application

We have a program made in Borland Delphi that uses Word automation to create documents. On an installation (terminal server) we are only able to get the Word automation to work when running as local administrator. When runnnig as anoter user we get an error message "Opdracht mislukt -2146824090" (its dutch version of Office), wich I gues...