Re: How to know if a user has administrative privileges

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Heinz wrote:

I need to find out if the current user is an administrator.

Looking up group-memberships seems to be one way, but if I have to follow nested groups it will become difficult....
Also, when using group memberships it will be language dependent ("Administrators" is a different group in French, Spanish, German etc....)

Another approach may be to simply try to do something that only an administrator is allowed to do....
Any idea what this could be and how to code it in VBS ?

Perfect would be a solution that work withs XP,Vista and 2003.

Another solution is IsAdmin.exe

http://www.westmesatech.com/wast.html

Site note: It can also detect if the current user is a member of Administrators but the group is not enabled (e.g., when UAC is active on Windows Vista and later).

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Bill Stewart
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