Eset Remote Administrator Agent You Do Not Have Administrator Privileges

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Gano Richardson

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Jul 27, 2024, 7:12:13 PM7/27/24

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Agent is protected by self-defense if Endpoint is installed. Without knowing the password to unlock settings, it's not possible to uninstall agent. Its configuration can only be changed via an ERA policy.

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there is currently no way how to prevent users with administrator privileges from uninstalling ERA Agents. Password protection (inspired by endpoint) will be available in next version (6.3) planed for early Q1/2016 release.

When I reboot and log in again I simply get the same messages about needing to perform the update before the next logon. I'm on a Windows Vista 32-bit laptop. I'm rather new to deploying via group policy so what other information would be helpful in determining the issue? I tried a different MSI with the same results. I'm able to install the MSI using the command line and msiexec when logged into the computer, so I know the MSI is working ok at least.

You're seeing the dreaded scourge of asynchronous policy processing. It's not a "feature" (and was default-off in Windows 2000 but default-on in Windows XP and above) and causes exactly what you're seeing-- non-deterministic behaviour with processing some types of GPO settings.

After you set that (and allow the GPO to replicate if you're in a multi-DC environment), do a "gpupdate /force /boot" on the subject PC. It will reboot and you should see the software installation occur.

The "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" slightly slows down the startup and logon because all GPO extensions are allowed to process, but the upside is that all GPO extensions are allowed to process.

I tried the Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon - Enabled setting from the answer by @Evan Anderson, but it wasn't until I added this setting below as well that allowed the software to install. Not sure if it was a combination of both settings or not. It's working now, so I'm leaving both settings.

This can happen if the application is already installed but msiexec is unable to uninstall it. Most common scenario is a previous manual install with "Only for me" selected instead of "Everyone who logs on to this computer".

I had the same problem but none of the fixes above worked. I finally figured out that there was another GPO trying to install software before mine, and it was failing with the %%1274 error because the GPO itself had the wrong permissions. For some reason that failure was then preventing my GPO from installing, even through mine had the correct permissions. Once I disabled the other problem GPO, my GPO installed correctly.

And I just found another different cause of this error. If you have "Spanning Tree" configured on the ethernet switch connected to the problem workstation, it will delay activation of the switch port when the PC boots up. Disabling Spanning Tree for the switch port or enabling "Spanning Tree Portfast" for the switchport solved this problem on a few of my workstations.

We had the same issue. We finally figured out that our laptops were RADIUS authenticated to WiFi, and the network installation couldn't start until the user logs in with AD credentials (because no network connectivity until then to remotely execute the installation files). And after the user logged in, it was too late as the installation should start before that.

Sometimes your group policy can get screwed up. Try removing the entire registry key HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Group Policy. You will probably find everything from GP gets installed again on reboot. You may want to backup your registry first...

I faced the same behavior with couple of laptops. They worked fine for couple of years, and then suddenly they didnt install any new software via gpo. Forcing the "Startup policy processing wait time" setting seem have corrected the problem. As said before it should be 30secs by default, but for me it seemed, that laptops didnt wait at all on startup for policies but skipped straight over.All laptops were win7x64, DCs Server2008R2 and Server2012.

I was logging into client machines as domain user with Enterprise/Domain admin privileges and able to access a shared folder containing MSI installation packages without any problem. Though, at some point tried accessing it via \IP\share_path_to_msi_packages_folder from another non-domain PC and kept getting a login pop-up.Basically, even though one allows all domain and non-domain users/groups or 'Everyone' read/write permissions on shared folder it would still not work and prompt me for username/password thereby not allowing local client to pull down packages pointed by GPO. This is caused by anonymous access disabled by default. After enabling it and giving read/write permissions to MSI folder was then able to successfully deploy majority of packages and only synology-cloud-station-3.1.-3320.msi failed (need to look into it). I was also able to access the shared folder from any non-domain machine.

108Failed to apply changes to software installation settings. The installation of software deployed through Group Policy for this user has been delayed until the next logon because the changes must be applied before the user logon. The error was : %%1274

1112Failed to apply changes to software installation settings. The installation of software deployed through Group Policy for this user has been delayed until the next logon because the changes must be applied before the user logon. The error was : %%1274

* Computer Configuration * Policies * Windows Settings * Security Settings * Local Policies * Security Options ELEVATE WITHOUT PROMPTING: User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode DISABLE: User Account Control: Detect application installation and prompt for elevation DISABLE: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

GPO deploy base software:* Computer Configuration * Policies * Administrative Templates * System * Logon ENABLE: Always wait for the network at computer startup logon * Group Policy ENABLE: Specify startup policy processing wait time (temporarily set to 120 will change to 30 later)

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