How to detect if CMD is running as Administrator/has elevated privileges?

Question

From inside a batch file, I would like to test whether I\'m running with Administrator/elevated privileges.

The username doesn\'t change when \"Run as Administrator\

Answer 1

Here's a slight modification of Harry's answer that focuses on elevated status; I'm using this at the start of an install.bat file:

set IS_ELEVATED=0
whoami /groups | findstr /b /c:"Mandatory Label\High Mandatory Level" | findstr /c:"Enabled group" > nul: && set IS_ELEVATED=1
if %IS_ELEVATED%==0 (
    echo You must run the command prompt as administrator to install.
    exit /b 1
)

This definitely worked for me and the principle seems to be sound; from MSFT's Chris Jackson:

When you are running elevated, your token contains an ACE called Mandatory Label\High Mandatory Level.