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Factory Reset Windows 10 without user intervention
dretzer
Hi,
I'm trying to use the script you referred to above (and also seemed to have wrote) using the following Kaseya Agent Procedure: https://automationexchange.kaseya.com/products/963
It seems to go through Kaseya correctly, first image, but when I run the script through powershell directly, I receive the error in 2nd image.
Would you be able to help me with this? We are trying to wipe a bunch of computers as quickly as possible and this was the most promising option we saw.
Thanks for the help and the work!
Hi.
You are trying to run the script with not enough privileges. The needed WMI methods can only be invoked with SYSTEM privileges. Membership in "Administrators" is not enough.
To execute a PowerShell script manually with SYSTEM privileges, you can, for example, use psexec.exe from Microsoft Sysinternals:
PsExec - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs
Place the .exe file and the .ps1 file in the same directory and execute psexec.exe with administrative privileges the following way (replace the paths as necessary):
C:\Scripts\psexec.exe -accepteula -S powershell.exe -command C:\Scripts\wipe.ps1
Another way, which you can do remotely and without psexec (group policy for example), would be to create a scheduled task running as SYSTEM and executing the script. You can then execute the task on demand or with a time/date schedule.
dretzer I realized the computer I was running it on didn't have a recovery partition so even running the "systemreset -cleanpc" command wasn't working.
Kaseya allows you to run scripts as System - so even though I was running locally in picture - I was trying as System most of the time.
Thanks for the help either way.
