Launching ActiveRoles Console from the command line with other credentials

Question

I tried looking and could not tell if it's possible to launch the ActiveRoles Console from the command line and specify the credentials to be used. It's an .msc and I see that mmc.exe allows for alternate credentials. We're deploying a privileged access solution and want to inject the administrative credentials when ARS is launched. Didn't know if anyone has already worked through this. 
 - David

Terrance.Crombie · Answer

Hello David, 
 
Interesting question! 
 
The trick to this is to launch the mmc executable with alternate credentials, and also with a switch to load in the Active Roles snapin automatically. 
 
You can pass the path of an msc snapin like so: 
 
mmc "c:\Program Files\Dell\Active Roles\7.0\Console\ActiveRoles.msc"

Aidar.Karabalaev · Answer

My understanding: 
1) launch cmd> with AD\user credentials and 
2) cmd>mmc "c:\Program Files\Dell\Active Roles\7.0\Console\ActiveRoles.msc" (inside cmd> launch mmc/snap-in) 
(probably) ARS.mmc should pick up (interactive logon?) credentials.