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Cannot add user as administrator
LockedI am the Technical Support at a chemical dependency treatment center. We have 48 users on a domain server. 5 of the 48 pc’s are set aside for our residents to gain access to the Internet. Huge group policies restrict them from gaining access to anything on the server except Internet access. Their Internet access is provided through a wireless router connected to one ethernet jack in the wall. (only one available in that room hence the wireless network of 5.) Anyway, I need to replace one of the wireless nic’s and install a printer. I have figured out how to lift the huge group policy by moving the users account to a temp OU. This allows me to gain access to stuff like control panel, run,CMD and edit the registry. Problem is, I need to be the administrator to add stuff like nic and configure wireless connection and install printer. Once logged in as admin, I go to Users and Passwords in control panel to give the current user administrative privlages temperaraly to install things and the ADD, Remove, and Properties buttons are all grayed out with change password button. My fear is that if I install printer as administrator is the printer only going to be installed in that profile? Where else is there a restriction that I need to release to gain access to the ADD, REMOVE, and PROPERTIES buttons? We had hired an outside company to place all these restrictions and now it is my job to figure out what they did so I can fix things without costing the facility a bundle of cash.