Disable UAC
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| Disable UAC | |
| BESC | |
| Configuration | |
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| danielheth@bigfix.me | |
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| 1/14/2013 12:00:00 AM | |
| UAC Vista User Account Control | |
| True | |
| danielheth on 1/14/2013 10:18:42 AM | |
| danielheth on 1/14/2013 10:18:42 AM | |
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Is Windows Vista, Win7, or Win8 (Relevance 2123)
| Used in 2 fixlets | * Results in a true/false |
(name of it = "WinVista" or name of it = "Win7" or name of it = "Win8") of operating system
Enable UA Status (Relevance 2124)
| Used in 1 fixlet | * Results in a true/false |
value "EnableLUA" of key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" of registry = 1 OR value "EnableLUA" of key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" of x64 registry = 1
Actions
Action 1 (default)
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Script Type
BigFix Action Script
regset "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]" "EnableLUA"=dword:0Success Criteria
if {x64 of operating system}
regset64 "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]" "EnableLUA"=dword:0
endif
This action will be considered successful when the applicability relevance evaluates to false.
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| There are many dangers of disabling UAC; this fixlet should only be used with extreme cation. | |
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| This does require a reboot to take effect. | |
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| A system restart is required to enable or disable UAC. On windows 7 -> If notify me when is not configured in Control Panel-User Accounts-User Account Control, then this setting wouldn’t have any effect.On Windows 8, it is simply a check box. | |
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| On windows 2008, nothing happened after updating registry key, might require a system restart. On windows 7, i enabled LUA-1, gave a system restart and UAC was not back. It is not working. | |
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| using "action uses wow64 redirection false" on a 32bit client has no effect since a 32bit client does not have wow64 redirection to enable or disable. | |
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| using "regset64" is equivalent to using "action uses wow64 redirection false" followed by "regset", but I prefer to use "regset64" despite the confusing "64" in the name because it is more obvious what registry will be set on a 64bit machine. "regset64" should be renamed to "regsetnative" to be more clear. | |
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| regset sets the 32bit registry on a 32bit machine and the 32bit registry on a 64bit machine. Think of it as the action equivalent of the inspector "registry" or "x32 registry" | |
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| regset64 sets the 32bit registry on a 32bit machine and sets the 64bit registry on a 64bit machine. Think of it as the action equivalent of the inspector "native registry" | |
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| does a 32bit system ignore the regset64 or error out? I don't have any 32bit Vista, 7 or 8's setup right now to test it. | |
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| This action only needs to be: regset64 "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]" "EnableLUA"=dword:0 | |
