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Y'all joke, but when that 'task' is run through process monitor, we see it's trying to overwrite a DLL in system32, create a directory at root of %systemdrive% or cache some data in the Program Files application itself, instead of utilizing ProgramData or Appdata properly.
When applications fail these simple practices and demand local admin, they shouldn't touch your network.
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As an insane person who moved all my folders to the D drive, it’s absurd how many big companies hard code C:\Users\you\AppData\Roaming
Easy fix, just mount your desired hard drive to a new root directory, call it /mnt/whatever and symlink... Oh.
Laughs in NTFS
The hardcoded AppData path is the main reason I had to spring for a larger system drive a few years ago despite not installing any programs to it. Gradle/NuGet/every other package manager were the main culprits, with Microsoft themselves coming second. Every few months I'd clear out their caches and "temporary" file folders and it'd free up tens of gigabytes.
I'd mess around with symbolic links to move it to another drive if I didn't half-expect Windows to break them at some point.
I've had my PortableApps there. And the not so portable (but still standalone ones) too. Some of them could even permanently fuck up UAC, allowing acess to everything, as a side-effect.
I... I'm sorry, I don't comprehend... Are you speaking some sort of archaic language or something?
LUA Buglight is also good for documenting why a program needs admin when it shouldn't.
After that, you just write an admin shim with the app compatibility toolkit and just add write perms to the necessary folders.
...Unless it's system32. Then your software request can die in a fire, and I'm forwarding the info to your boss (and mine) before you can complain to them.
Can you please explain to the laity what the problem with System32 is? So we know why to avoid it
It is the beating heart of Windows itself, the nuclear reactor at the heart of the facility. And much like with a nuclear reactor, you don't screw around in the core unless you have a damn good reason.
Doing so at random is a good way to make both go kaboom.
So is it like the kernel but for windows?
More of a combo of kernel and coreutils, but yeah. Pretty much.
I've worked for two organisations that distributed licences for users. Being able to prove, under scrutinisation, that your general requests do not need to be questioned for that level. Anything above your level of liberty in the data governance would be checked—though 99% of the time you already know this and explain in full detail on the request to help.
It worked perfectly and I don't know why it's still not the norm.
In a 'wet cement' org structure, often the specialists in an area know far more about what's going on than the juniors gatekeeping. If you aren't buddies with the person on top, you join the queue and a 5 min job becomes 6 months and several meetings; if you don't already botch a dodgy workaround before then.
Edit: I'm in year 3 of getting the Oracle SQL add-on allowed to direct query, read only, in Excel. My current workaround is to use the IDE to export to CSV, store on SP, then PQ that... And, yeah, I have write access in the IDE even though I keep telling them that's bad... Apparently, that solution is more secure. I've spoken to the CIO about the concerns and how it breaks the fundamentals of our data governance framework. The new infrastructure architecture gets it, but has to spin the better way of doing things as a "trial" which has taken 6 months to approve and counting...
Reading your comment at night does feel like a horror story
Too much jargon. Employee is just using an AI agent.