Consider the following scenario:

• The folder redirection feature is enabled in the domain.
• You enable the Offline file feature on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista.
• You access a shared folder from this computer or you use the folder redirection feature to redirect some folders in the user profile to some shared folders on a file server.
• You change the target location of the shared folder or the target location of the redirected folders to a new one location.
• The new target location does not exist in the offline file client-side cache.
• No files or folders are being used in the shared folder.

In this scenario, you are unable to update the record of the target location of the shared folder in the offline file client side cache without the administrative privilege. However, you are able to perform the same actions without the administrative privilege in Windows XP.

Consider the following scenario:

• In a Windows Server 2008 domain, you apply a “Restrict users to the explicitly permitted list of snap-ins” setting in a Group Policy object (GPO) to restrict users’ access to snap-ins.
• You allow access to the Group Policy Management snap-in and to the Group Policy Management Editor snap-in.
• You allow access to Administrative Templates (Computers) and to Administrative Templates (Users) in Group Policy Management or in Group Policy Management Editor.
• You link this GPO to an Organization Unit (OU) so that the users in this OU can apply the policy and be able to edit the Administrative Templates settings for the GPO.

When you log on by using an account in the OU to manage or to edit the Administrative Templates in Group Policy Management Editor, the nodes for Administrative Templates: Policy definitions (ADMX files) retrieved from the local machine are not displayed. Therefore, you cannot edit the Administrative Templates.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, you want to suspend a Distributed File System (DFS) share root or directory tree by using the SuspendRoot method. You expect that this operation requires you to have only the local administrator permission on the computer. However, you cannot suspend the DFS share root or directory tree unless you also have read permission to the DFS.

On a Windows Vista-based computer, you want to suspend a Distributed File System (DFS) share root or directory tree by using the SuspendRoot method. You expect that this operation requires you to have only the local administrator permission on the computer. However, you cannot suspend the DFS share root or directory tree unless you also have read permission to the DFS.

You log on to a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer by using an administrator account. When you run a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) query against the CIM_DataFile class, the WMI query returns incomplete results.

This problem occurs if you run the WMI query by using the Run as administrator option (Elevated Permission).

For example, when you run the following query by using the Run as administrator option, the query returns incomplete results.

Select * from CIM_DataFile where filename = filename and extension = extension_name

This issue does not occur if you run the query without the Run as administrator option.

On a computer that is running Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) in Windows Vista, you cannot perform certain privileged operations such as creating sockets, opening disk devices, opening driver device objects, and opening section objects. This is the case even if you are a member of the domain administrators group or a member of the local administrators group.

Only the built-in domain administrator or the built-in local administrator can perform these privileged operations.

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