Restriction: This topic applies to the Windows Vista and 7 operating systems and later. It does not apply to the Windows XP operating system.
When you have enabled the Windows User Account Control (UAC) feature, HCOSS exhibits different behavior depending on whether or not you are logged in as a standard user or an administrator, whether or not you are a member of the Windows Administrators group, and how you start the HCOSS user interface.
Standard user and administrator modes
You can run HCOSS as a standard user or as an administrator. When you run as an administrator, all HCOSS features are available to you. However, when you run HCOSS as a standard user, some features are limited. We recommend that you run HCOSS as an administrator when possible.
HCOSS UAC behavior
When using UAC, HCOSS runs in either standard user or administrator mode, depending on these three factors:
- The Windows group to which you belong - standard user or administrator
- How you start HCOSS - from the
Start menu or from within the IDE
- The settings for
HCOSS UAC Behavior options
To run HCOSS in standard user mode
The following scenarios show how to run HCOSS in standard user mode, limiting access to some features. In each scenario, the statement in each first-level bullet point must be true. Assume all
HCOSS UAC Behavior options are set to their defaults:
- Scenario 1
-
- You are logged into Windows as a standard user
- You are not part of the Administrator group
- You start HCOSS as a standard user using either of the following methods:
- From within the IDE by selecting
Run > Tools > HCO for SQL Server
- From the
Start menu
- Scenario 2
-
- You are logged into Windows as a standard user
- You are also part of the Windows Administrator group
- You start HCOSS using either of the following methods:
- From within the IDE by selecting
Run > Tools > HCO for SQL Server
- From the
Start menu, answering
No to any subsequent prompts.
- Scenario 3
-
- You are logged into Windows as an administrator
- You start HCOSS from the
Start menu, answering
No to any subsequent prompts
To run HCOSS in administrator mode
The following scenarios show how to run HCOSS in administrator mode, providing full access to all features. In each scenario, the statement in each first-level bullet point must be true:
- Scenario 1
-
- You are logged into Windows as a standard user
- You are a member of the Windows Administrator group
- You start HCOSS using either of the following methods:
- From the
Start menu, answering
Yes to any subsequent prompts
- From the
Start menu but right-clicking
HCO for SQL Server and selecting
Run as administrator
- Scenario 2
-
- You are logged into Windows as an administrator
- You start HCOSS using any of the following methods:
- From within the IDE by selecting
Run > Tools > HCO for SQL Server
- From the
Start menu
- From the
Start menu by right-clicking
HCO for SQL Server and selecting
Run as administrator
HCOSS UAC prompts
By default, HCOSS could prompt you at startup depending on the settings of the
HCOSS UAC Behavior options. You might encounter one or both of the following prompts:
- Relaunch HOCSS as Administrator
- This prompt appears by default when:
- You are a member of the Administrator group
- You launch HCOSS from the
Start menu without selecting
Run as administrator
If you respond
Yes to this prompt, HCOSS relaunches in administrator mode, and Windows displays the User Account Control dialog box. Respond to this prompt as appropriate.
If you respond
No to this prompt, HCOSS resumes launching in standard user mode.
If you check
Stop asking me, HCOSS changes the default setting of the
Prompt to automatically run as Administrator option from
True to
False.
- Running as non-administrator information
- When you are running HCOSS in standard user mode and you are not a member of the Administrators group, this dialog box appears to notify you that some features are limited in standard user mode.
If you check
Do not tell me again, HCOSS changes the default setting of the
Warn non-Administrator users of limited functionality option from
True to
False.
Note: You can change the default HCOSS behavior with regard to launching HCOSS with UAC and UAC prompts by setting the options manually. For information on setting
HCOSS UAC Behavior options, see
Options.
