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Change User Group in W2000

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by occ

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Do you know some API for change the user group in W2000 at machine level not domain level ? We need change this group for install programs that they need administratives rights. We have 60 pc's configured with advanced users and it's very hard to dothis upgrades or installation one to one in every machine.

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Oscar

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by beermonster

Hi,

I'm a systems engineer, not a dev, so I may be off track here. You want a user to trigger an install, and have that install move their account to the admin group - am I right? That can't be done - if it could every hacker in the world would be doing it. the reason it's impossible is that a process would need to be running under an admin or local system context to add users to a group anyway, esp an admin or power user group! If you are using MSI's, or can package your apps into MSI's,then you may find some help from the following article

Q259459

Search for it at www.microsoft.com/technet

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