Forsta Plus and UAC (User Account Control)

When Installing Forsta Plus

Forsta Plus can not be installed properly while UAC is enabled. Follow these steps to disable UAC on your servers prior to installing Forsta Plus.

1. Run: UserAccountControlSettings.exe
2. Move the slider to Never notify.

Figure 1 - Disabling UAC

To enable UAC:

1. Run: UserAccountControlSettings.exe
2. Move the slider to the default setting (Default - Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer).

Figure 2 - Enabling UAC

Note: Enabling and disabling UAC may require a reboot.

When Using Forsta Plus

If for security and policy requirements your site must have UAC enabled, you must perform the following steps to get Forsta working:

ConfirmitDeploy cannot be member of local Administrators group, so

1. Add to Remote Desktop User so you can log on and perform required logins (For Batch servers).
2. Assign folder permissions.

ConfirmitDeploy must have read/write permissions to Email server pickup directory (X:\Inetpub\mailroot\pickup).

ConfirmitDeploy must have read/write/change permissions to Forsta data directory (and sub directories).

3. Assign the same user name and password for ConfirmitDeploy on the other Forsta servers in the site

This is also applicable if you have Shared data stored on a server that is not running Forsta code.

Note: Forsta Plus will not work if you have UAC enabled and your ConfirmitDeploy user has Administrative rights. This is because when ConfirmitDeploy has Administrative rights, UAC will try to show the Raise Privileges overlay. This cannot be shown for a service account, and Forsta Plus will fail in performing the requested action.