Launching Active directory console

[Grantson]

Hi folks

Ive been trying to knock up a little script to help me out in the mornings

Im working on a helpdesk and have a list of applications i need to have open, some which run as my basic user account then prompt for my admin details on their own & some of which need to be run as my admin account

So i have a script that pops up asks for a username and password of the elevated admin account runs the non esculated apps and then moves on to the esculated apps one of which is AD,

RunAs($sUserName, $sDomain, $sPassword, 0, "C:Program FilesExchsrvrbinusers and computers.msc")
While @error
         MsgBox(16, 'Error #' & @error, 'Error starting Active Directory console.')
WEnd

any method of calling AD directly results in error 1 being returned

calling it through cuing cmd or @Compsec result in a UAC prompt

I have read that AD, regedit etc are protected from virtual keyboard etc but does this comppletely prevent the msc console from being opened?

Thanks

Grant

Edited March 2, 2012 by Grantson

[JLogan3o13]

Hi, Grantson. The code below works just fine for me. As you mentioned the UAC, I would suggest looking at #RequireAdmin in the helpfile.

ShellExecute(@SystemDir & "dsa.msc")

[Grantson]

Thanks Jlogan

using #RequireAdmin wouldnt work, the script launches 8 apps 3 of which run on my standard login then 5 which require an admin login

i guess using shellexecute and having to fill in one uac box after starting the script and providing credentials is still an improvement over 8 manual logins