Unless you want to add all your required groups to the GPO, this is what will happen.
Maybe you could use a GPO for a startup script instead that runs a command of "net localgroup Administrators Helpdesk /add" to append rather than replace 2008/6/16 Ziots, Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you using the restricted group features in the GPO to accomplish > this? If so this is the intended design, only the administrators will be in > the local adminstrators group. > > Z > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ehren Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Active Directory Admin Issues <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon Jun 16 17:04:17 2008 > Subject: GPO to add a group to all configured systems and LEAVE all groups > currently in place. > > Hello! > > > > I have a GPO that is set to add a group called "helpdesk" as a member of > the Builtin\Administrators group on the systems for which the GPO is > configured. It does do this, however it REMOVES every other user or group > that is already configured and replaces it with "helpdesk" which is not > useful for the people who use the computers and need the admin privilege on > it. > > > > Is there a setting I am not finding that will just 'append' the "helpdesk" > group to the list of BUILTIN\Administrators instead of 'replacing' > everything? > > > > It is currently configured under: > > > > Computer Configuration > > --Windows Settings > > ----Security Settings > > ------Restricted Groups > > --------Group:BUILTIN\Administrators | Members: PHY-AST\Helpdesk > > > > Thanks! > > > > Ehren J. Benson, MCSE > > Windows Systems Administrator > > Department of Physics and Astronomy > > Michigan State University > > 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > 517-884-5469 > > > > > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ > ~ ~ > > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ > ~ ~ > > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
