{"id":27,"date":"2009-10-15T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thowden.com.au\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-10-15T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:39:07","slug":"turn-off-uac-on-windows-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2009\/10\/turn-off-uac-on-windows-server-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn off UAC on windows server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UAC appears to give me grief constantly, it seems like every error I get with installing software stems from permissions issue.<\/p>\n<p>So I went to turn off the UAC today on a server just to confirm if it made a difference.<br \/>\nTo turn it off:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\ngo to Administrative Tools -&gt; System Configuration -&gt; Tools tab<\/li>\n<li>scroll down to Disable UAC and click to select<\/li>\n<li>then click Launch and note that it will require a reboot of the server<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently it does not turn it off fully, as I still needed to use Run as Administrator despite my logged in account being specifically added to the local computer administrators. Seems odd and it did not fix the specific error I was looking at, so I turned it back on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAC appears to give me grief constantly, it seems like every error I get with installing software stems from permissions issue. So I went to turn off the UAC today on a server just to confirm if it made a difference. To turn it off: go to Administrative Tools -&gt; System Configuration -&gt; Tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-servers","tag-windows-server-uac-user-access-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}