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Software installation on Win2k

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by cgilless 1 view

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Another annoying Microsoft catch-22. Software installion on a Win2k server works fine--except that my desktop users are Power users only. Yet most software apps need administrator rights to install to a local machine. Short of making all my desktop users Administrators--which is stupid and defeats the purpose of control--how do I allow software installs under Power user rights? Or is that even possible?

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by stevef68

Create Group Policy Objects on your server and deploy the software via the GPO. Also, set the option in the policy to always install with elevated privileges. That is the simple solution. The other way is to set up a local machine GPO on each client machine to always install with elevated privileges, but for obvious reasons, that doesn't make much sense unless you have a very small network.

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