interactive services dialog detection pop up on Windows Server 2008

Please ensure that you have elected to "Run as Administrator" within Windows Server 2008.

Windows has introduced new security settings and this sounds like it is the result of one of them.

Best Regards,

Joel

From my understanding this will be standard behavior due to the Security enhancements in the Windows 2008 Operating system. In previous Windows versions the console session was also called session 0. In addition to being the interactive logon session it would also run all the local services under the session. Microsoft believed that running services in the same session as a hosted interactive logon could present a possible security attack as services run with elevated permissions.

In Windows 2008, session 0 is a non-interactive session and is only used to run services and backend processes. They have moved the user sessions to session 1, 2, etc. Due to this change the user now has to enable the Interactive service on the Windows 2008 server, to be informed when a process is trying to display something in session 0. With the service enabled, the user will have the capability to switch to session 0 (A special toned down desktop) and interact with the application. Upon completion of the interaction the user returns to the logon session to continue working on the server.

Unfortunately this appears to be new functionality to the Windows 2008 Operating system that Administrator's will have to adjust too. With the new design, I am not sure AutoStart will be able to build a workaround (to function as in the past Operating Systems) without breaking Windows security practices.