A coworker of mine was writing a script to simplify some configuration items on some servers, and he ran into a snag. If you’ve worked in IT for at least a day, you’ve seen this message at some point:
Access denied error, seen here in its natural habitat.
This is easily solved using the old right-click -> Run as Administrator routine, but what if you need a script to run a command, or an entire script as administrator? In this post I go through the three scenarios I’ve come across for running some Powershell commands as an administrator; a single command, an entire .ps1 or batch file, and a entire script from within the script calling it.