Verified on 5.9.5.0 Set up a VM with a difference disk on the local hyper-V host. The parent of the difference disk sits on a network share. Ran SSA against this VM. Confirmed non-elevated powershell commands are run when analyzing the local disk: [----] D, [2018-10-05T13:23:18.929216 #28029:373110] DEBUG -- : Q-task_id([job_dispatcher]) Running powershell script on hypv2012-01.ms01.cfme2.lab.eng.rdu2.redhat.com as MS01\Administrator: $file_stream = [System.IO.File]::Open("H:\diffdisk.vhdx", "Open", "Read", "Read") $file_stream.seek(0, 0) Confirmed elevated commands are run when analyzing the parent disk: [----] D, [2018-10-05T13:23:22.194078 #28029:373110] DEBUG -- : Q-task_id([job_dispatcher]) Running powershell script elevated on hypv2012-01.ms01.cfme2.lab.eng.rdu2.redhat.com as MS01\Administrator: (Get-Item "\\vmm2012-01\MS01SCVMM2012Library\VHDs\fedora-small.vhdx").length