We have encountered permission related issues running RMS in our Microsoft Active Directory/Group Policy environment:
Windows XP
Store Operations POS will not upload any transactions performed in Offline Mode once it returns to Online Mode unless it is run with administrative privileges.
Changes to the configuration in Store Operations Administrator and Headquarters Manager are only save if it is run with administrative privileges.
All users have been given full control in the permissions for the whole Retail Management Systems folder in Program Files, and to the desktop shortcuts. I have tried running the applications directly from Program Files, desktop and Start Menu.
The only solution we have found is the following changes to the registry:
Create registry key and users give full permissions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Store Operations POS
Give users full permissions to registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MediaProperties
Give users full permissions to registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Retail Management System
Give users full permissions to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\Client\SuperSocketNetLib
Windows 7
No applications will run without administrative privileges. When GPOs are applied, trying to launch an applications generates the following message:
When trying to run these applications without GPOs in place, UAC will prompt for administrator credentials.
There is no problem with GPOs or UAC when running the applications as administrator.
All users have been given full control in the permissions for the whole Retail Management Systems folder in Program Files, and to the desktop shortcuts. I have tried running the applications directly from Program Files, desktop and Start Menu.
The registry fix for Windows XP does not work with Windows 7.
