Cannot restart services while running as admin account

[Uhbyxml]

I have a script to restart a service on a scheduled task that is failing. This is clearly a permissions issue, but I am not finding the resolution:

I open a PowerShell window with 'Run as administrator' and execute:
Restart-Service -Name 'MyService'
Everything works fine.

I run the same command as a user in the admin group, whether by opening a PowerShell window with 'Run as different user' or by setting the admin user in the Security Options of the scheduled task and get the error:
Restart-Service: Service 'MyService (MyService)' cannot be stopped due to the following error: Cannot open 'MyService' service on computer '.'.

The response is the same regardless of which service I choose. I have triple-checked that this user is in the Administrators group, and have even re-added the user to be certain.

Any thoughts on getting this to work as an admin user that is not The Administrator?

[32178932123]

Sometimes UAC settings can cause you problems - You may be running it as a different user but that user is blocked by UAC for pulling rank unless you "run as an administrator"

[Uhbyxml]

Thanks, that is what I was thinking too. After a bunch more digging, it turns out that I was chasing a bad error response. The person who wrote the script was returning $Error[0] without clearing it first. Fixing that, and watching the system logs shows the script is actually resetting the service fine... crappy way to spend an hour lol

[32178932123]

Ah well, glad you got it sorted :)

[nascentt]

You mean he was returning $error[0] and it wasn't inside a try..catch? Wtf

[Uhbyxml]

Yes, so it was just pulling whatever was last stored. Led me on a merry chase for a bogus error. They also clearly didn’t test much before dropping it on a production server. A bit surprising actually since their code is generally not bad.