Elevate Powershell scripts

Question

Is it possible to elevate the permissions of a powershell script so a user without admin privileges can run the script? Our network admins are trying to find more time-effi

Answer 1

if you are using V2, you can use the following which is up on the PowerShell Team Blog

Start-Process "$psHome\powershell.exe" -Verb Runas -ArgumentList '-command "Get-Process"'

This would run "Get-Process" as administrator.

If you don't have V2, you could create a StartInfo object and set the Verb to Runas like this.

function Start-Proc  {   
     param ([string]$exe = $(Throw "An executable must be specified"),[string]$arguments)       

     # Build Startinfo and set options according to parameters  
     $startinfo = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo   
     $startinfo.FileName = $exe  
     $startinfo.Arguments = $arguments  
     $startinfo.verb = "RunAs"  
     $process = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($startinfo)  

}

I have a blog post that talks a bit more about using a System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo object.