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Can ATIH run under a specific user account ?

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Can ATIH 2016 use a specific user account to access locked down local resources (folders, volumes, shares, etc.) in Windows ?

Similar to accessing a permission restricted drive on a network.

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Yes, it must be run as a local admin account when launched (UAC prompt will enforce this).  It then calls on Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) to take a "snapshot" in time of the existing computer, to include all locked and in use data on the drive.  If you tell it to backup the entire computer, that's what it will do - including profiles or data that that particular user may not have access to natively in Windows.  Even in Windows, an administrator can take ownership of another users profile and grant themselves access to that data - admin access is all it takes. 

Shares would be a different story.  if the share has different persmissions than the logged on user, then Acronis would prompt for the share credentials and store those in the application via an encrypted key and call upon those to connect to the share if/when needed.

Is it possible to give ATIH access to storage via it's Volume ID rather than a driver letter ?

Not that I'm aware.  This has been an issue with people swapping USB drives for the same backup task.  The 2017 update 1 release says this behavior has been fixed in that version and you can now swap drives using the same letter, even though the ID is different on the drives.  

What's your goal/plan?

The question should have been phrased, "Is it possible for ATIH to "backup to or restore from" a volume ID like \\?\Volume{########-####-####-####-############}\ instead of a drive letter or UNC path ?".

The goal is to backup to a local NTFS volume that is locked down by permissions and is not visible as a drive letter.

Where do you configure an account for ATIH to run under ? On the LogOn tab of the ATIH services ?