{"id":123,"date":"2024-09-16T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/?p=123"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T17:06:06","slug":"powershell-verify-if-the-script-is-running-as-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/technology\/programming\/powershell-verify-if-the-script-is-running-as-administrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Powershell | Verify if the script is running as Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes it is useful to verify if a running script is running under Administrator privileges, here is how to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\n\n<code>write-host  `n`r'Running as Administrator? '\n&#091;bool]((&#091;System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).groups -match \"S-1-5-32-544\")<\/code>\n\n<code>\n# Check if running as administrator\n$isAdmin = (&#091;Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] &#091;Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole(&#091;Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator)\n\nif (-not $isAdmin) {\n    Write-Host \"Not running as administrator. Relaunching with elevated privileges...\"\n  \n    # Relaunch script with elevated privileges\n    $scriptPath = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition\n    Start-Process powershell -ArgumentList \"-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `\"$scriptPath`\"\" -Verb RunAs\n    exit\n}\n\nWrite-Host \"Running with administrator privileges.\"\n<\/code>\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is useful to verify if a running script is running under Administrator privileges, here is how to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","_lightning_design_setting":{"layout":"default"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-powershell"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calatayud.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}