I have an InstallScript project that is serving as the entry point for a series of installs to install our project suite. Is there a way that I can detect if the setup has been launched in "Run As Administrator" on Vista or later OSes.
I needed to check for this as well but also have another question. The solution that I found was to check for USER_ADMINISTRATOR as in:
if ! (Is(USER_ADMINISTRATOR, "")) then
MessageBox("You must use the 'Run as administrator' option to install this product", SEVERE);
else . . endif;
HTH. My question is once you've detected that run as admin was not used, how do you raise an error to prevent other custom actions from executing? My objective is to check for run as admin as early as possible and if False then end the installation.
Typically I would suggest changing the Required Execution Level setting on the releases view to Require Administrator. If you need to take cslims's approach, usually the abort; statement will help you exit the setup without modifying the system.
Thanks for the abort tip Michael, I'll try that. I do have Require Administrator set however due to how AD policies are handled here, the tech does not have local admin permissions on the workstation so simply Require Admin does not do the trick.
