Running a command as Administrator using PowerShell?

Question

You know how if you\'re the administrative user of a system and you can just right click say, a batch script and run it as Administrator without entering the administrator p

Answer 1

I haven't seen my own way of doing it before, so, try this out. It is way easier to follow and has a much smaller footprint:

if([bool]([Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).Groups -notcontains "S-1-5-32-544") {
    Start Powershell -ArgumentList "& '$MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path'" -Verb runas
    }

Very simply, if the current Powershell session was called with administrator privileges, the Administrator Group well-known SID will show up in the Groups when you grab the current identity. Even if the account is a member of that group, the SID won't show up unless the process was invoked with elevated credentials.

Nearly all of these answers are a variation on Microsoft's Ben Armstrong's immensely popular method of how to accomplish it while not really grasping what it is actually doing and how else to emulate the same routine.