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May 5, 2004 at 03:58 PM
lbofh

controlling a wannabe admin

by lbofh . Updated 22 years ago

Our company has 2 offices. I am responsible for the networks/desktops/phones/anything else with electrons company-wide.
At the remote office, I have a wannabe admin. The problem is, he does not know much about computers/networks/etc. He just thinks he does. He is not interested in learning how to do things the right way, so there is no point in trying to use him in any sysadmin capacity. So, he is not authorized to do any administrative tasks, his responsibility is solely data entry.
He refuses to accept this and management refuses to fire him for the things he has done/attempted to do.
We just migrated to pure Windows 2000 on desktops and servers. I have locked things down so that only admins have privileges to install programs, etc and use a screensaver lock on all servers.
This guy still has not quit trying to mess with things! Has anyone else ever dealt with this? What did you do to combat it? How can I best create a paper trail to prove to the boss that he is violating our policies so he can be terminated?

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