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LOCAL ADMIN RIGHTS IN XP?

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by super-taurus

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I have some XP professional clients that log on a NT or 2000 environment. I am being forced to make the user domain account, administrator of the local client. If I don?t do that, the user cannot download a plug in from the Internet or cannot run a particular program, or sometimes cannot log on.

GREETINGS, salomon

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by turbobuddha

I add my users (domain\domain users) to the local "Power Users" group. If I don't do that, they can't run our BI reporting program. Otherwise, I would love to be able to leavethem in the users group so they couldn't download and install stuff from the internet. We set them up with most everything they need at install and if they need something else tehy have to call IT. Then we can use RDP to log in with a special acout that is local admin but not domain (but still a domain user for file access) and do any installs/updates. I found you need to put limits on user rights unless you like fixing problems and reinstalling windows.

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