The approval and denial email messages that are sent as a response to the user's Self-Service Elevation request can be customized.
The default Approval message says the following:
MESSAGE_NAME:ApprovedRequest
MESSAGE:
Your request to run the following application with elevated privileges has been "approved".
Request Date: <ExecutionDate>
Requested Application:
<ProductName>
<Path>
<Arguments>
Reason for request: <Reason>
This new privilege should be available on your computer once Windows has refreshed its domain security policies.
The default Denial message says the following:
MESSAGE_NAME:NotApprovedRequest
MESSAGE:
Your request to run the following application with elevated privileges has "not" been approved.
<ProductName>
<Path>
Please contact your administrator for more details.
These messages can be customized by opening the MessageTemplates.cfg file in the Privilege \Console folder.
Each message in the CFG file starts with ======StartOfMessage========= and ends with ======EndOfMessage============.
The text between these delimiters can be customized to your liking.
Text delimited with angle brackets "< >" are variables that are replaced with data at runtime.
The following variables may be used in the Approval message:
The following variables may be used in the Denial message:
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