How to run PowerShell from C# as administrator?
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This will launch PowerShell as an Administrator:
var newProcessInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
newProcessInfo.FileName = @"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe";
newProcessInfo.Verb = "runas";
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(newProcessInfo);
If you need to pass in a script to run, then use:
newProcessInfo.Arguments = @"C:\path\to\script.ps1";
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Anonymous almost 2 years
I want to execute some PowerShell script through C# but it requires admin privilege. This is my code (I got it here):
using (new Impersonator("user", "domain", "password")) { // create Powershell runspace Runspace runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(); // open it runspace.Open(); // create a pipeline and feed it the script text Pipeline pipeline = runspace.CreatePipeline(); pipeline.Commands.AddScript(scriptText); // add parameters if any foreach (var parameter in parameters) { pipeline.Commands[0].Parameters.Add(parameter.Key, parameter.Value); } // add an extra command to transform the script // output objects into nicely formatted strings // remove this line to get the actual objects // that the script returns. For example, the script // "Get-Process" returns a collection // of System.Diagnostics.Process instances. pipeline.Commands.Add("Out-String"); // execute the script Collection<PSObject> results = pipeline.Invoke(); // close the runspace runspace.Close(); // convert the script result into a single string StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); foreach (PSObject obj in results) { stringBuilder.AppendLine(obj.ToString()); } return stringBuilder.ToString(); }
Anyway, this doesn't work on my machine. For example, if the script text is "
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
" then I get "Access to the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds\Microsoft.PowerShell' is denied.
"And in my case, it cannot get list of virtual machines through
Get-VM
command. (I found thatGet-VM
only return results if it runs under Admin privilege.)Do I do something wrong? Is there another solution for this problem?