Windows 11 terminal admin elevation does not work

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yannara asked Dec 5, '21 yannara commented May 9, '22

Windows 11 terminal admin elevation does not work

I have Win10 and Win11 managed devices via Intune and for admin tasks, I use additional accounts which has AzureAD role assigned like Device Local Administrators. In Win10, elevating admin rights and executing run as admin works fine, in Win11 it doesn't. In Windows 11, after couple of tries entering admin credits via UAC, I get:

"The application cannot be started for the target user. Please login as the user and explicitly install this package."

So that terminal command line must be installed seperetly or something? Is this a bug?

windows-11 mem-intune-general

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Reza-Ameri · Dec 05, 2021 at 04:04 PM

Are you using local account or Azure account?
Are you following the same procedure as the one for the Windows 10 in the Windows 11?

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yannara Reza-Ameri · Dec 06, 2021 at 09:35 PM

Azure account
exact same process in Win10 and Win11 yes

It turns out, this problem is only about the Terminal Command line. Other UAC features work in Win11.

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AA-3796 · Feb 03 at 05:11 PM

I am also unable to launch Windows Terminal (Admin) with a user account which is capable of elevating to perform other administrative actions on the device.

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Answer 1 · 2021-12-10T11:59:27.377Z

yannara answered Dec 10, '21

It is only the Terminal which elevation does not work and it asks then for ""The application cannot be started for the target user. Please login as the user and explicitly install this package.""

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Answer 2 · 2021-12-14T05:55:46.103Z

yannara answered Dec 14, '21

So this is the situation, I can't use Windows Terminal with admin previleges. I ensured, that no speicial security features was applied on the Win11 machine, excluded security baseline and everything. I also tried the same thing with local admin account (no Azure), same behavior! But my collegue has a Win11 home computer where he can launch it like that.

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Answer 3 · 2021-12-14T10:58:04.13Z

yannara answered Dec 14, '21

I installed manual Win11 computer without Intune & Azure AD management and I get the same error!

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Answer 4 · 2021-12-20T08:16:33.013Z

yannara answered Dec 20, '21 yannara commented May 9, '22

Contacted MS support, they find out this is known issue.

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ChristophPilgersdorfer-3069 · Mar 23 at 10:28 AM

|Did you get an answer from microsoft support when this issue get fixed?

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yannara ChristophPilgersdorfer-3069 · May 09 at 04:45 PM

No :(

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Answer 5 · 2022-02-24T09:43:50.243Z

yannara answered Feb 24, '22 ChristophPilgersdorfer-3069 commented Mar 15, '22

I have tested this again, "home" computer installed via MS account and added secondary local account, the Windws Terminal UAC works. But if the computer is imported to Intune and managed with MDM, it doesn't.

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ChristophPilgersdorfer-3069 · Mar 15 at 08:42 AM

I have the same behavior.
Can remember, there a many issues open in the windows terminal github page.
Sorry but why is Microsoft releasing Windows 11 and set Windows Terminal as standard shortcut in the context menü and it is NOT WORKING for Enterprise costumers!!!
It is so annoying ...

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Answer 6 · 2022-03-23T11:41:07.687Z

ChristophPilgersdorfer-3069 answered Mar 23, '22 yannara commented Mar 24, '22

In the last Insider Preview Microsoft has changed back to Windows Powershell in WinX menu (Thank you!)

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Answer 7 · 2022-05-06T09:44:18.01Z

MikeCrawford-5998 answered May 6, '22 yannara commented May 9, '22

On an AAD joined machine, if you sign in as the elevated user account (admin) and run Terminal once, then sign out, then you should be able to now run Terminal elevated back in a standard user account.

I think there are others apps in Win11 where you also have to do this to be able to subsequently run elevated.

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yannara · May 09 at 04:46 PM

Still sounds like a bug for me

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