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Type: Suggestion
ID: 329528
Opened: 2/21/2008 8:58:22 AM
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A very handy feature for Windows 2003 explorer interface was the "run as..." context menu option. This feature has been removed from Windows 2008 server, making it more difficult to use. For servers, we install services and those services need to use special network credentials. In an attempt to tighten the security of the server, it is necessary to test security access to resources. It is a requirement to run a process using a set of credentials to test security access or to diagnose problems that arise from security. Windows Server 2008 got the Visa Run as Administrator context menu, but someone removed the most valuable feature of running as a different identity. Thank goodness we can open a command line and use the runas program to perform the same task,but this requires a lot of extra typing and is not as convenient as before.
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Please describe how you would like this behavior to change?
Add the context menu "run as..." back into the explorer interface as it was in Windows 2003.
Please provide a justification for why you think this change should be made?
It was there before, and it was a very frequently used feature. It was removed for no good reason.
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Posted by Rich Weisgerber on 3/21/2008 at 12:27 PM
I have linked this with an existing feedback report that is under investigation toward possible resolution. This one will remain open in order to gather more votes here on the feedback site.

Thanks,
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Feedback Team
Posted by uerueluem on 12/8/2008 at 12:29 AM
Probably there should be an integration of the additional created tool ShellRunas v1.01 in windows server 2008, wich would do the administrative jobs much easyer. i hope, there will be a usefull integration of that.
thanks.
Posted by jkorell-sogeti on 4/16/2009 at 3:22 PM
In order to run anything besides .exe and .msc files as a different identity, I had to also add a reg key under HKCR\SystemFileAssociations named ".cmd", with subkeys "Shell", "Run as different user...", and "Command"; then replace (well, it is empty by default) the value of the (Default) string value for the "Command" key to include the value (correct as of ShellRunas v1.0.1 - 2/28/2008) ' "<path to ShellRunas.exe executable>" "%1" %* ' (include everything except the single quotes). You would have to complete this same exercise for all other file extensions you want to use the RunAs functionality with.
Posted by JackTripper2 on 11/4/2009 at 8:43 AM
Shift+Right Click, Run As...
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