Safeguard Privilege Manager for Windows 4.3 - Quick Start Guide

Configuring temporary session elevation

Available only in Privilege Manager Professional and Professional Evaluation editions.

Temporary Session Elevation (TSE) allows an administrator to generate elevation passcodes that can provide end users the ability to temporarily elevate the privileges of any process or application on his/her machine. The passcodes will work for both on-network and off-network machines, even if there is not an active internet connections.

Using the Temporary Session Elevation Passcode Manager

Before you configure temporary session elevation settings, ensure the following components are set up:

1. The client is running on the computers you want to apply the settings to;
2. The server is configured and running with the port that you have selected allowed for incoming data (the default port is 8003); and
3. Client data collection settings are enabled for the selected GPO.
4. The client is enabled to use offline passcodes to create temporary elevated sessions (enabled in the Client Deployment Settings wizard).

To use the Temporary Session Elevation Wizard to set up privileges:

1. Open the wizard:
   1. Open Passcode Manager from the Temporary Session Elevation section on the navigation pane of the console.
2. Create a new passcode:
   1. Click New to start the Instant Elevation TSE passcode generator.
3. Enable the Instant On Demand Privilege Elevation settings on the State tab.

4. Use the Groups tab to alter the settings. By default, users of the target GPO will automatically inherit the administrator's settings (BUILTIN\Administrators).
5. Complete the advanced options in the Privileges, Integrity and Validation Logic tabs.
6. The Passcode is created on the next tab, Passcode.
   1. Enter a Title to describe the passcode.
   2. Enter a Maximum allowed usage. This is the number of times the passcode can be used before expiring.
   3. Enter a Duration. The duration is the amount of time the passcode will remain active for once activated.
   4. Optionally, select the checkbox toe End all elevated processes (and child processes) when Passcode duration expires. If selected, this will close all windows that were opened with a Temporary Session Elevation passcode.
   5. Click Export to file to save the passcode for end user use.
7. Click Finish to complete the wizard.
   1. The passcode should be delivered to the user for usage.

8. Run a Temporary Session Elevation Usage Report to view the processes that have been launched. For more information, see Temporary Session Elevation Usage Report on page 1.