ProcessEx Alternatives

ProcessEx reviews and mentions

• Run process without elevation from a powershell script running with elevation
  2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 17 May 2023

  If it's as another user then using Start-Process ... -Credential $cred will give you a process that is not elevated. If you want to start it as the current user there isn't really an easy way to do so with the cmdlets builtin and what dotnet offers you. If you are open to using a custom module I have ProcessEx which exposes the ability to start a new process with a custom parent. With this you can set the parent as explorer.exe which will be unelevated and the process inherits the same access token.

• Run PowerShell command NOT as admin
  1 project | /r/PowerShell | 8 May 2023

  There are a few ways you can spawn a sub process as the limited token but it's not something you can easily do with the builtin cmdlets and dotnet APIs available. The simplest option I know is to spawn a new process with a custom parent that is not elevated. For example I can use my ProcessEx module to spawn a limited process with the parent of explorer.exe.

• Start-Process doesn't work with -credential parameter on Windows Server Core
  3 projects | /r/PowerShell | 16 Jan 2023

  Using Start-ProcessWith with a -Credential object should work for both running in session 0 (Enter-PSSession) and using the -Wait parameter to wait for it to complete. Unfortunately it will spawn in a new window (which you can hide though). If you want it to run the new process as another user but in the same window you essentially need Start-ProcessEx with a -Token. This allows you to spawn a process in the current terminal but unfortunately the -Token side requires privileges that not even normal Administrators typically have, thus would need to be run as SYSTEM.

• Executable that only returns stdout and defies all redirection
  2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 19 Dec 2022

  For Windows, the only thing you can do with an exe like this is to rely on the ConPTY APIs Windows provides and reads from that. Unfortunately there is no builtin way to do this with PowerShell so you are reliant on either writing the PInvoke code yourself or using a 3rd party module. I have one called ProcessEx which can be used to spawn a new process under a ConPTY and capture that as a string with the following:

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