2011-10-04

Failed user lock-down

Have been on a Citrix Windows 2008r2 server machine where the admins really tried to lock down everything.

The other side is: Some stuff is not working well and I do not wonder because I am pretty sure that a lot of features that have been disabled are required by several pieces of software.

And the funny thing is: You can't really lock out the user on Windows - just to show one simple way to open the command prompt if disabled:

  1. Start Microsoft Word
  2. Press ALT + F11
  3. Press CTRL+G
  4. Type: vba.shell "cmd.exe"
  5. Press Enter
  6. Voila here it is the commandline window.
In the particular case C: drive was disabled and command prompt -  now everything is at hand form the command prompt. You can either try:
vba.shell "explorer C:\Windows"
works either. :-)

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