Aatrix Form/Program Update Requiring Local Admin - Any Workaround ?

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I have a customer who just emailed me demanding a meeting to discuss how absurd it is that updating a form in Aatrix requires local administrator rights.

She is, I believe, talking about the prompt that comes up at least annually when Aatrix tries to auto-update their program.

So far as I can tell this is more than just UAC and is requesting a local admin account for the update to complete.

If that’s the case, is there a workaround to this?

Congrats to all who have IT departments who still make users local admin ( or share the SA password on SQL ). Increasingly I find that IT is doing neither.

Sage seemed to fix the challenge for workstation sync which used to prompt for local admin login.

Any workarounds for this Aatrix prompt? ( other than making users local admins - even temporarily )?

Customer IT Departments push back against making users local administrators. In many cases, these IT departments are subject to annual audits and they simply cannot increase user rights without the very real risk that the issue comes up on audit. And should malware take over their local user workstations due to increased rights it creates an even bigger problem.

End users are incredibly frustrated because the 1099 process is a "one and done" that happens in the busy January month and frequently is processed under a deadline for completion and filing to the users/IRS.

Please, if there is nothing I'm overlooking, for the sake of our mutual customers I would request that this area be reviewed so that these updates could be completed without an end-user needing elevated rights ( even if just temporary )

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    Aatrix Forms program files are typically located in the Windows program files location, which may require administrator privileges to update them. That is why, whenever Aatrix Forms needs an update, you may see a prompt for an Administrator username and password to update these files. The User Account Control (UAC) will pop up if the current user running the update is not a local administrator to the computer. It will request an account with administrator privileges to log in to allow the update to proceed. It is not required to make the user account running Aatrix Forms an administrator of the computer. Administrator credentials are needed only to update the forms. Aatrix is currently revamping the update process so that an administrator is not required in order to perform updates on a typical update schedule. Until then, an administrator user credential will need to be supplied to proceed with the update.

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    I'm trying to work out a silent way to update the AAtrix forms.  I have a cloud provider that has another program that uses aatrix and they are able to schedule a command to run nightly from task manager to update the software.  So far Sage hasn't been able to help with getting Sage 100 aatrix to run.  The error we are getting is asking for a vendor code.

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    I read somewhere that Aatrix was working on "fixing" this issue.  We have a problem with the current programming also.  As someone replied, Sage did fix the workstation synchronization requiring admin rights.  Aatrix really needs to step up and get this accomplished.  That is where we need to communicate I guess.

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    We are doing this as a scheduled task and it updated the program/forms.


    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Sage\Aatrix>AATRIXFORMS.EXE /v MAS026 /update silent