Powershell Orchestration - Running as Admin

[shawn_h]

Hi folks,

I've got a small script which should ideally populate users into the security tab of an active directory group object.

Unfortunately, the script only works locally when it is "Run as Administrator" when I try to run this locally in a Powershell Window.

The first few lines of my script are used to re-open a prompt as admin, which also works locally, but doesn't seem to work when initiating it as a powershell activity from ServiceNow.

The active directory credentials plugged into ServiceNow have admin rights but, alas, the script seems to return the same error as if I would run it without an elevated prompt.

Would anybody be able to help in either running a Powershell command as Admin from ServiceNow, or happen to know another solution that might help in doing the same thing?

[drew25]

Hey Shawn, were you able to figure out the "Run As Administrator" issue?  We're looking at a different issue, but similar to yours our script runs fine when you run the PowerShell as an administrator on the local machine.  It doesn't work in ServiceNow though.

Thanks!

[shawn_h · Accepted solution]

Hi drewm,

Afraid not. Looks like it isn't possible through ServiceNow from the looks of things.

In the end we've ended up setting up a scheduled task locally to run through and pick up and do the bits that needed elevated rights.

It isn't tidy and doesn't use ServiceNow as a solution, but does what we're after at least.

[drew25]

Thanks for the update!  It's unfortunate, but glad it works.