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DanH
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5 years ago
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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
Staff
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...

  • DanH's avatar
    DanH
    Contributor
    5 years ago

    Hi there,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I have just tried making the changes you suggested, and got the same error. 

    I'll have to come back to it tomorrow.

     

    Thanks again

     

    Dan

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    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.