r/adminbyrequestusers

Hey all,

just wanted to sanity-check something with other Mac admins / power users.

We’re seeing a really annoying issue on a few Macs running macOS 26.1 (Tahoe) with Admin By Request installed.

These are the symptoms:

• You’re typing in Outlook / Teams / Brave / Slack / Notion / Asana / Excel…
• Every now and then the input focus just dies. No error, no popup, nothing.
• You have to click back into the window to continue typing.

Same hardware, same users, previously fine on Sonoma / Sequoia. No big changes on our side except the OS version + ABR.

There’s an Apple discussion that looks very close to what we’re seeing (SecurityAgent / authorization stuff on 26.x), and A

one of my user noticed me that she can't save a .conf file "mosquitto.conf" in this directory : "C:\Program Files\mosquitto" even with the temporary admin session i tired pre approuve cmd pre approuve vscode on top of that temporary admin session but nothing changed, i also tried to save it directly from the block not and apparently ABR simply block any file modifiction in this directory even with temporary admin right for no apprent reason

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I have attempted to setup the Teams Integration as per https://docs.adminbyrequest.com/integrations/teams/overview-v2.htm but when I get to Step 4 I honestly cannot find where to paste the copied API key.

I have can see in this YouTube video https://youtu.be/AuVzsTqnJfg where he gets a pop-up asking for the API key but this appears to be for version 1 - I don't see any of this in version 2.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Cheers, Tim

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Hello all, 👋

Last few post here have been great and we at Admin by Request appreciate you and the community that we built here.

I quick introduction my name is David and I am apart of the Admin by Request support team, and I am here to provide brief support and provide general information relevant to Support.

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We focused in with this update to clean up and overhaul the internal interworkings of Admin by Request. So give it

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
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So I've been testing ABR for around 4 months now, mainly on three machines with active users (including me). We planned to roll out ABR for over 350 user endpoints.

However I notice many cases where it's a real PITA to administrate and use.

1. On several occasions I get UAC prompts which do not get intercepted by ABR so my user is never elevated. A recent example, updating the WSL through wsl.exe --update, which downloads an MSI and runs it. Even though I configured a pre-approval for wsl*.msi files with the appropriate Microsoft Vendor certificate, ABR does not care to elevate permissions. Only if I manually run the MSI installer.

2. The administration portal only allows creating pre-ap