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- To audit a remote machine that is not in a domain, you must use the Administrator account (not "an" admin account, "the" Administrator account) on the target PC. ** and #1
- To audit a remote machine on an Active Directory domain, your supplied user (or if none provided, the user running the script) must be a member of the target machines Administrators group (or subgroup).
- To audit localhost, any supplied credentials are disregarded and the connection is made using the details of the user running the script.
- The account must have a password; WMI does not allow blank passwords.
- The account password must NOT contain " (double quotes). This is because cscript (and wscript) cannot parse argument values containing double quotes. They are simply stripped. No (before you ask) escaping will not work. This is a cscript limitation and nothing to do with Open-AudIT.
** NOTE - To enable a remote machine (Vista or above) to be audited that is not on a domain, by an account in the Administrators group, other than the actual Administrator account see the below section on UAC.
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