Using Softgrid MSIs Without Being An Admin

Written on Mar 10 2008 1,457 views, 1 comment

by Michel Roth

Recently Microsoft included a new feature into Softgrid that allows for OSD to be deployed as an MSI. This was done to optimize the integration with ESDs like SMS / SCCM. MSI do however require admin privileges. Or do they? Ment van der Plas has found Read More...

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Kevin Wilson wrote Something else I heard about - using Certificates

on Fri, Mar 14 2008 12:06 PM

At a Microsoft presentation a few months ago, I heard someone talk about using certificates embedded in the MSI file as a way to get aroud User Account Controls restrictions in Windows Vista, since without the certificate you have to be an administrator, but with the certificate you did not. FWIW.

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