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Detecting if you are an Admin

This came up on an internal alias. A customer wanted to know how to determine if there were running as an admin in a tool. Below is a sample program that will print out whether or not you are the machine admin or a member of the machine administrators Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:56 AM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

Determining if you're an Administrator from Powershell

Here's a handy PowerShell function I used to determine if I'm currently running as an Administrator in PowerShell # Determine if I am running as an Admin function AmIAdmin() { $ident = [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent() foreach ( $groupIdent Read More...

Posted Friday, January 19, 2007 2:34 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments

LUA + MSI + Luanch program now on Vista

I'm a huge fan of the LUA support in Vista. It has it's quirks but it's a major step forward for Windows programming. As a former *nix guy I've had to run LUA the hard way before Vista. The support in Vista is tons better than it used to be. There are Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:36 PM by Jared Parsons | 0 Comments