SOLVED Windows 7 to Windows 10 In-Place Upgrade without Administrator Rights

[w_jackson]

Hello all,

I have a question regarding what is the best practice for doing a Win 7 to Win 10 in-place upgrade without needing to grant the locally logged on user Local Admin rights.

I have created an upgrade task sequence with SCCM 1803 that works flawlessly, of course if I use my administrative account to do it. If I use my regular everyday account, it of course fails with "Insufficient Privileges". Obviously, due to the nature of our organization, information security does NOT want to give the regular user elevated rights during the course of our migration.

I'm hoping that I am merely missing something very simple, a check box or an account setting, but if not, has anyone ran into this, and how did you deal with it?

Thank you very much in advance for any answers.
--wJ

 

[s2fit]

you can advertise it within the software center and it will allow the user to run it with the SCCM action account. That account should have local rights to run it (it should be in the local administrators group).

 

[w_jackson]

As with all things SCCM, I experienced an id10t error I simply did not realized that in the Client Settings, the default is set to Administrators and not to All Users. After making the change and refreshing policy, everything is working just fine. Thank you for the reply. I would consider this question solved.