Friedrich,

New year, old issue...

This came up again, and I think I have a work around but want to run it by you to see if you can spot any potential gotchas.

What I've done is create a small SB8 executable that is manifested as Invoker, which I run non-elevated from within my actual elevated patch script. It has the 'wait' option so the main script pauses during execution.

At that point, since the non-elevated process is running in the users context it can see the mapped drive, parse out the UNC path and writes it to an INI that the elevated installer can then read and use for the rest of the patch process.

So far I've just tested under Windows 7, but it seems to work just fine.

Sound workable to you?

Thanks,
Tom H.