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DanH
Contributor
5 years ago

Problem with UAC prompt when running from Azure Pipeline

Hello,   I'm having a bit of a problem getting the application I want to test to install automatically.   The application is a Winforms desktop application with and installer.exe.   When run no...
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    hkim5
    5 years ago

    Perhaps, you could provide elevated permissions to the user/agent/admin that would run TestExecute via the Azure DevOps pipeline. Within the security tab

    , you have the option to grant permissions to whomever.

    That is, if you dont want to disable UAC on that remote machine...

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hkim5
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Perhaps, you could provide elevated permissions to the user/agent/admin that would run TestExecute via the Azure DevOps pipeline. Within the security tab

, you have the option to grant permissions to whomever.

That is, if you dont want to disable UAC on that remote machine...

DanH's avatar
DanH
Contributor
5 years ago

Hi there...  I reckoned it was simpler to turn off the UAC prompts in the end.  The worst that can happen is that an isolated virtual machine might get a bit messed up.