Can anyone confirm what I'm seeing in regards to who is allowed to restart a machine via Software Center.
Servers by default allow Administrators and Backup Operators to shutdown machine Workstations by default allow Administrators, Backup Operators, and Users to shutdown machines. A user can kick off patching on a server if there not an administrator but when they attempt to restart via Software Center they receive a message stating: * Insufficient Permissions for Software Installation - You're IT Department has set restrictions for this software that prevent it from installing on your compute as box below [cid:[email protected]] If the same process is performed on Win7 box and the user isn't an administrator they are allowed to restart (since Users by default are allowed to shutdown machines) But what I'm seeing is even if I give the specific user (e.g. Contoso\PatchUser) the right to Shut down the system on they server they are still denied restart from Software Center. [cid:[email protected]] It's almost like Software Center totally is ignoring the user right assignment vis group/local policy and all it cares is that the user isn't an administrator. I'm seeing this on Windows 2012 servers, haven't tried it on Win 2008 yet. Thanks Rob
