Copy Files to C-Drive (Admin rights)

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1

Hello,

I created a Profile-Cleaner with different functions for the user in our company.
One of the function is to Copy Files from a folder ($sourcePath) to the C-Drive ($desinationPath)

The script works only, if you run it as admin. But 99% of the users can’t run this as admin since they don’t have permissions for that.

Do any of you know of a workaround to achieve this without having to enter my credentials in the script?

Below you can find the function, that needs to be modified.

function Copy-NetworkFoldersToC {

    $sourcePath = '\\XYZ\ProfileCleaner\CopyToCdrive\*'  #In here are the files and folder to copy
    $destinationPath = 'C:\'  
   
    if (Test-Path -Path $sourcePath -PathType Container) {
        Copy-Item -Path $sourcePath -Destination $destinationPath -Recurse -Force
    } 
}

Folders to copy go to ProgramData and Users\Public

2

Running it as a scheduled task would likely be the best solution.

3

Thanks for the fast reply.

This tool should only be running, when the applications of a user is not running well. Therefore he will run this “profile-cleaner” to delete corrupted files and copy back the the original ones…

4

Do you have some sort of app catalog like MECM (SCCM) you could deploy that way and it would be able to run privileged without credentials

5

Access is typically denied to the root folder of C:. Try creating a subfolder first and copy to there.

6

I’m with Tony.

Why should a user have write access to C:\? Users should only have write access to their profiles. :point_up:t3: :man_shrugging:t3: