Run App as Specific User

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Summary

For apps where we are connected to an environment via VPN, we may need to run the app as a different user than logged in. This batch file presents options to the user. You can edit to add more

Usage 

run_app_as_user

Code 

@ECHO off

cls
:start
ECHO.
ECHO 1. Visual Studio 2019
ECHO 2. VS Code
ECHO 3. Sql Server Management Studio
ECHO.
set choice=
set /p choice=Choose which application to launch:

if not '%choice%'=='' set choice=%choice:~0,1%
if '%choice%'=='1' goto vs
if '%choice%'=='2' goto vscode
if '%choice%'=='3' goto ssms
ECHO "%choice%" is not valid, try again
ECHO.
:vs
runas /noprofile /netonly /user:domain\userid "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
goto end
:vscode
runas /noprofile /netonly /user:domain\userid "C:\Users\SeanPatterson\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe"
goto end
:ssms
runas /noprofile /netonly /user:domain\userid "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\Ssms.exe"
goto end
:end