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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition

by Chris Dent, Brenton J.W. Blawat
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
11h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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User Account Control

User Account Control (UAC) restricts local (not domain) user accounts logging on using a remote connection. The remote connection will be made as a standard user account by default, that is, a user without administrative privileges.

The Enable-PSRemoting command disables UAC remote restrictions. If another method has been used to enable remoting, and a local account is being used to connect, it is possible that remote restrictions are still in place.

The current value can be viewed using:

Get-ItemPropertyValue HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy 

If the key or value is missing, an error will be thrown.

UAC remote restrictions can be disabled as follows. Using ...

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