RE: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread James Hill
Not surprisingly their AV/AM solution is very busy for the relatively small number of users. And that's just the stuff it finds! -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 1 May 2012 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UAC and local admin

Re: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread Rankin, James R
: Re: UAC and local admin rights In many MSP environments, disabling UAC is a necessity for control and automation. Granting local admin rights... well... that may depend on the client applications used in that environment. I'm not condoning either, but I know that certain environments pretty

Re: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
-- *From: * Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com *Date: *Tue, 1 May 2012 12:07:00 -0700 *To: *NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *ReplyTo: * NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Subject: *Re: UAC and local admin rights

Re: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread Ben Scott
Short version of the below: There's a ton of crap software out there, and the amount of crap usually outweighs the amount of IT resources. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: There are many niche/industry apps out there that require admin

RE: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread Crawford, Scott
Preach it brotha -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UAC and local admin rights Short version of the below: There's a ton of crap software out there, and the amount of crap

Re: UAC and local admin rights

2012-05-01 Thread Lora Cates
Amen!   -lc From: Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 3:57 PM Subject: Re: UAC and local admin rights   Short version of the below: There's a ton of crap software out

Re: UAC and local admin rights

2012-04-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:54 PM, James Hill falc...@gmail.com wrote: Whilst investigating a new clients environment I found a group policy created by the previous MSP that disabled UAC on all computers and granted all users local admin rights. What's wrong with that? It really cuts down on