How to run STAS agent under another user account other than administrator on Windows server 2016?

Hi Eric,

STAS installation mandatorily requires Admin privilege to work perfectly.

Thanks

Okay, I see.

I have tried other users than administrator with administrator privileges but no success for the client side WMI-part. The only user which is working for me is Administrator.

I believe that is because administrator user is the local administrator on each client?

Hey Erik.

I did some testing about this, but the user running STAS needs domain admin rights. For one, it needs access to your Domain Controllers Event Viewer, what is already kind of a deal breaker when it comes to using any user other then a domain admin. It also needs administrator rights at the client machine so it can pool logged in users through WMI. I was not able to make it work with a more restricted user as well. I ended up creating a new user with and ridiculously long password and made it a member of Domain Admins group. Although is not perfect and at the end of the day is pretty much the same security risks, I still prefer this approach to using the builtin Administrator user.

Regards - Giovani

Okay. I suspected that I have to use the administrator account.

Thanks for you reply.

Okay. I suspected that I have to use the administrator account.

Thanks for you reply.