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How does anyone deal with UAC?
I open something that apparently needs admin rights and everything is just froze. The chat is behind all the other windows so the customer doesn't see anything I send them.
This needs to be fixed, I have several customers that just sit there for 30+ minutes, and I can't do anything unless they happen to click on the chat window so we can communicate.
Telling customer to turn off UAC every time is not an answer. I'm not going to waste 10+ minutes turning off UAC and restarting every single remote support session. I would rather use a different product.
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You seem to have something strange going on with your settings or installs. I have no trouble with UAC prompts. They pop up, I click on them, then move on.
And there is a setting to always keep SC on top, which would take care of your pop-under chat window issue.
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@basketball34kb are you referring to UAC prompts that appear within a Support or Access session? By default, Access sessions are installed as System and should behave exactly how @SoCo_Systems describes above. Support sessions, however, behave a bit differently. Since often times a Guest may not be able to run things as System a Support session will launch at whatever level possible. You can, however, pretty easily elevate a Support session by sending a Control-Alt-Delete command from the Essentials menu in the Host client. This CAD command will do one of two things, it will either behave like a normal CAD command if the Guest client is already elevated or it will prompt you for credentials in order to elevate the Guest process. This KB article has some more information on the process. |
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its a support session
the KB article describes the issue, but that means I have to enter admin credentials?
so now I have to ask the customer what their login information is, then do the ctrl alt delte and enter the information?
That seems like a huge security issue asking customer for their password, I would rather tell them to shut off UAC.
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As far as I can remember the prompt appears on the Guest's machine so that either party may enter the credentials. |
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Originally Posted by: Scott  As far as I can remember the prompt appears on the Guest's machine so that either party may enter the credentials. I will try this next time it happens
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Take a look at the Credential Storage option. (Tools menu - Manage Credentials - Prompt for storage) Your customer can store the admin credentials you'll need in the client software without having to give them to you, and without you needing them to type it in every time.
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