Runas feature

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Syed Aslam Basha here from the Information Security Tools Team.

At times you would have to run applications say internet explorer (IE) or sql server management studio (SSMS) or command prompt with service account for that you would login in a machine with service account and launch the applications. But with Runas feature you can launch applications using service account credentials even though you have logged in with your credentials. In this blog post I will show the usage of “Run as” feature;

    • Launch the command prompt in admin mode
    • Type in Runas /user:domainname\serviceaccountname application
    • Application can be command prompt, IE, SSMS or any other application

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-Syed Aslam Basha ( syedab@microsoft.com )

Microsoft Information Security Tools (IST) Team

Test Lead

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