As pointed out by the ISC's Handler's Diary, and further to the ZDNet article reporting that Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees (link posted last Wednesday), Microsoft published Standard User Analyzer, a tool that "helps developers and IT professionals diagnose issues that would prevent a program from running properly without administrator privileges. On Windows Vista, even administrators run most programs with standard user privileges by default, so it is important to ensure that your application does not have administrator access as a dependency.
Using the Standard User Analyzer to test your application can identify the following administrator dependencies and return the results in a graphical interface:
- File access
- Registry access
- INI files
- Token issues
- Security privileges
- Name space issues
- Other issues"
Microsoft Application Verifier, which "helps developers identify potential application compatibility, stability, and security issues."
