imagine I have four users in my windows. users 1, 2, 3 and 4. I am on user 1 environment. I want to run a program on user 2 environment. so I must log off or lock the current environment. change the user and go to the user 2, then run my program.
How can I run the program from the user 1, without changing the user? let me emphasize that the program must be run in the same user 2 environment
I tried runas (and shift+right ckick and ...) but they play the program in the current user 1 environment just as user 2.
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I am trying to create some local user accounts in Windows 10 on my home PC. I can go through the wizard ok, but when I try to login to the accounts I get a message similar to 'user profile service failed the logon'.
The whole story is this:
I want to add a SSD drive to my system (Dell Tower, I do not remember the model). So following some advice, it was suggested to move my user files to another drive so the SSD drive would only have the OS and programs on it. Plus this would keep my SSD required size smaller.
So I started to move my user files using the "Location" tab for the "My Documents" and similar folders to my other drive. This all appeared to work okay.
I then selected my wife's folders but I could not since I was not logged under her account, fine. I logged out of my account and attempted to log into her account (we both have administrator rights). That is when I received the 'user profile failed' message.
I have third account on the system, another admin account, and it too failed. Windows seems to be accepting the passwords, just failing further into the login process.
I logged back into my account and my desktop is completely different, there are only 3 icons there now instead of the ~20 I had before, so something with the 'move' failed? I'm not sure. I moved the files back to the default location and that did not help. I googled the 'user profile service failed' message and it seems this happens often enough that there are fairly detailed instructions about how to fix it.
The one fix was to examine the registry (this was from support.mircosoft.com) HLM\Software\Microsoft\windows nt\CurrentVersion\ProfileList and 'simply' remove the '.bak' suffix from entries that match the accounts that are broke. Set some other values to 0. In my case the values were not present in the values list.
I did this and it did not help. I did reboots at various times throughout this process, but those did not help either....
So I tried to create a new account(s), but no matter how I created the account I could never log into the account. Right now, I have only one account that I can log into.
I have not tried the "net user" command as I have just found some information about here at work. I did have to use that program to reset my account's password recently. I have used the same password at home for years, so I do not know how it changed. Luckily, my wife's account still worked at that time and it was an administrator account. So maybe that was some indication that the 'user subsystem' was failing in someway.
This PC is seldom connected to the Internet, only for Windows updates or downloading a program, like "Open Office", Paint.Net type of things. We mainly use an older XP machine for computer work and a tablet for surfing the 'net. The computer is 'new' to us and we have not migrated our files to it. In fact the PC is seldom used at all and powered off for months at a time. I am pretty much the only person that even uses the system, my wife went through a "Dummy's for Windows 10" book and decided it was too different to really bother with learning a whole new thing.
I will try 'net user' tonight to add another account and see if that helps.
Thanks for any hints or suggestions.
I'm not 100% sure what's happened, but it looks like the accounts are probably corrupted. You can do it, but Windows much prefers to have the user profiles on the same drive as the installation itself. Moving them entirely may be the cause of the issue.
(For future reference, If you want to copy user accounts across to a new SSD, it's always best to start here: C:\Users\xxxxx). xxx being your userID. If you would like to use it as your primary C:Drive for Windows - I would advise just a clean install.
You could try a couple of things at this point. (Make sure you're connected to the internet if you can)
First, try just making sure your connected to the internet and run all the updates you can. The profile service may just be corrupted and Win10 especially might just need an internet connection to sort it automatically.
Try booting into recovery mode, and run a system restore back a few days. The files may not return but it might fix the profile issues.
If you can still login to your wifes profile, use this tool (after backing up your files) to clear out all the old profiles.
Net user will likely just enable the hidden admin account, and would not be all that useful if your wife's account is already and administrator.
I have approx 22 vb.net windows form based projects that are run by different users throughout my company. I publish them using one-click to a network server, then install on each user computer using the set-up file on that server. That way, when I publish an update, it is automatically pushed to each user when they open their programs.
I'd like to consolidate all of this into 1 program. So for example, the Accounting dept, IT Dept, and Customer Service Dept would all have the same icon/program to open, and they choose which program specific to them to open from that main menu. The goal is to remove all 22 programs from user computers and only have 1 installed that runs each individually (somehow).
My dilemma is program updates. When I update a program for the Accounting Dept, IT doesn't need that update. But since it would be only 1 installation and 1 publish, every user on the network would receive updates not relevant to them. So how do I create one main program "hub" for all users that only receives updates to the programs that they need?
You can launch the click once programmatically
Dim url = "\\Software\Production\ClickOnceApp\ClickOnceApp.application"
Process.Start("rundll32.exe", "dfshim.dll,ShOpenVerbApplication " & url)
Just point to the url on your server, where it's installed from. This will launch the app the same way windows does, so it would check for updates when it's run as if it's run from the start menu.
Then you could maintain a list of 22 applications' names and locations in the 23rd app's settings, xml, sql, etc., and add user groups, permissions, etc.
It could be a winforms app which provides buttons according to the configuration above for launching all these apps. Yes, I think this is actually a pretty neat idea.
I have a TFS build and some unit tests. Build runs, test runs on build server.
But: On one machine, I can see test results, not on another. See screenshots. (Ignore the failed tests, there is no test results that's the matter)
The same is on the web-UI: with one user account I can see "test Results" and stats, on another machine (with another user account) there is a message "Test result with ID 123 not found or deleted".
I even don't know where the Test Result file might be located. Is there a permission problem?
The test results are stored in the collection database so given that the two users have the same rights on the team project they should be able to see the same build details.
You could investigate if the two users have appointed different Access level (license level) through the admin pages: http://TFS_SERVER:8080/tfs/_admin/_licenses. I am not completely sure if a Stakeholder is allowed to see test results from builds.
I have an requirement to execute macro-script kept on remote machine. DCOM Configuration setting is not set to allow communication between two computers. Even it's not possible to change the DCOM setting in my scenario.
Can I achieve the same requirement using Remote Desktop connection and then invoking macro script (through VBA code)?
I don't know exactly how to invoke script kept on remote machine using VBA?
Any idea/suggestions welcomed!!
This may not exactly answer your question, but may give you an idea.
I faced a the same problem with an application built in Access and the only way I could achieve this is by programming the macro I wanted to run into the application and then let the application periodically check a table on a share drive for "Go" command every few seconds.
On the share drive there was a table like this:
command_id | user | command
======================================
8 | "john.doe" | "update_me"
And all the applications were checking this table. If the app identified itself as user "john.doe", it decided to run the pre-programmed macro "update_me" and delete the row afterwards to prevent it from running again.
You can easily program more advanced stuff, like parameters, periodical execution etc.
It's not perfect, but it works quite nicely. Currently, I have the table on the SQL server and the command request takes cca 0.01s and I use it very often.
My question may sound a little bit stupid.
My team has to test a Web application that it is used by 3 different User Roles. So, we start by writing our Test Cases based on the User Stories. My problem is that I don't want to create 3 different Test Cases for each User Role. I think that this needs a lot of time when writing the Test Cases and later testing them because:
Total Test Cases Number = User Stories x Test Cases Per User Story x User Roles Number.
Moreover, I don't want to create new Test Cases if some time in the future a new User Role will be created because they will be just duplicates with some little differences.
Is there a better way to manage this situation?
Thanks in advance.
Single Responsibility Principle?
Code and test the user access separately to the user story, unless you really do get a completely different story based on your role, in which case, its a distinct spec and warrants its own test.
Not sure on the coding front (depends on what the situation is and how the code is implemented), but I can answer from a testing perspective (2 yrs so far, over half of it in a traditional waterfall system migrating to Agile).
The web application I test is similar in that we have three user types (global) and three user roles (tied to "projects" which are buckets of sites, sites in term as buckets of imagery, look-up EyeQ if curious). So, 9 possible combos, 8 of which can make a site. Current regression procedure doc has over 100 test cases, 20 or so are edit/create/delete site. total overall: 500+ test cases majority are manually run (ongoing efforts to automate them, but takes time as we've gone thru a UI reboot).
Anyway, I've had to rewrite some of our manual procedures as a result of the sweeping UI changes and am trying avoid the mistakes authors before me made, such as the one you describe (excessive repetition aka reuse same test three times with slight variations).
Rather than stick to their strategy of writing cases, I use looping (same term applies in coding)- that is, test cases that use one role-type combo per pass. Instead of having the same test case written 3+ times and each executed separately for each role/type, use the procedure once but add a few steps at the end.
example test case:
user can create a site (8/9 of the type-role combos can do this in my app)
what they did before I came in:
test case 1- sys admin not tied to project can make site (10 steps);
test case 2- sys admin with project role can make site (same 10 steps);
test case 3- account admin not tied to proj can make site (same 10 steps as 1st case);
test case 4- account admin with proj role can make site (ditto);
test case 5... and so on
what I do:
test case 1: Do 10 steps as user with combo 1,
step 11- log out as that combo, log in as user with combo 2 and repeat 1-10,
step 12- log out as user from step 11 back in as user with combo 3 and repeat 1-10,
...
The difference:
3+ test cases or 30+ steps executed (in this case, about 100)
vs
1 test case: under 20 steps
Take this with a grain of salt though, it depends on your type of problem.
If it really is repetitive (as with the example) try to loop as much as possible.
The advantage is, when you get an auto-test framework up, a simple for-loop within the test case with an array object or struct for input.
The disadvantage is, it wouldn't be as modular (takes an extra 30 seconds to find problem cause if something breaks, but that's my opinion).
No need to confuse. You need to just make Matrix for access rights Vs. User Roles.
For e.g :- Raw : User Modules(rights of users)
Column : User Role
Just mark in excel sheet that which user have what type of permission or access.
You can also download some tools which has ability to generate this type of permutations and combination.
You can download from here.
https://testcasegenerator.codeplex.com/
Download Test Case Generator
It is greate tool for measure permutaiion and combination in accurate way.
We have tested these role-based test cases for a huge enterprise application with close to 38 roles and 100s of fields editable or not editable across more than 15-20 web pages using mind maps.
since there were a lot of workflow statuses linked with each role, the thorough testing was needed.
Add a generic test case covering functionality and permissions and mention in test notes to execute the test case for each role as per mind map designed. Attach the mind map to test case.
We converted the test cases into mind map:
Sample MindMap
Mind maps helps in consolidating large chunk of data into a pictorial form that made easy for understanding the test cases and speeds up the execution.
Simply create a table of user roles listed vertically and a list of functions mentioned in the step horizontally. Then mark yes or no in each cell for that role. Repeat for each step. You can put your step description to verify the user’s authorization to perform the action based on the table. If you have a test data column you can put the table there.