User account control

Windows User Account Control is a mechanism by which changes to the system which affect all users can be controlled by requesting elevated privileges when such changes are made.

How this affects the Blue Prism software

From a Blue Prism perspective, this affects any of the following configuration changes:

• The list of database / server connections which the client and resource PCs connect to.
• Whether a resource machine runs when the Blue Prism client application is started up on a machine
• The external business objects registered on a machine
• The Blue Prism server configurations defined on a machine

If Blue Prism is running as an administrator (the program is configured to always Run As Administrator), it will save the configuration with no further prompting from the user.

If the application is running under normal privileges, the user will receive an elevation prompt the first time the machine configuration needs to be saved. If accepted, a separate program called AutomateConfig is run and will remain running as long as the Blue Prism client is running.

You can tell when AutomateConfig is running by looking in the notification area (the lower right of the screen). There will be a Blue Prism icon with a small cog overlaid on it.

If the program remains open longer than it should, you can close it by right-clicking the icon and choosing Exit.