Allow Non local Administrator to update Lacerte
To combat Ransomware, we are attempting to setup users without local Administrator rights. Users can open Lacerte and QuickBooks, however they cannot update either application. From what we understand Lacerte releases updates just about every week and more often during tax season.
As a work around we created additional icons to the application which run the application as an Administrator. The idea being that when Lacerte prompts for an update. They close Lacerte, Open Lacerte using the script below. The first time the password needs to be provided, however subsequent use does not require providing the password, the “savecred” provides the password.
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:DomainName\Administrator C:\Lacerte\18tax\w18tax.exe
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /savecred /user:Local Administrator C:\Lacerte\18tax\w18tax.exe
Problem is that regardless of whether you use a domain Administrator or a local Administrator, the above scripts do not see Mapped network drives.
We set Group Policy based on the following article to no avail.
This is obviously a Windows issue , but having said that , has any other Lacerte Administrator dealt with this issue and resolved it ?
