They don't need admin rights. You just haven't figured out how to allow them to function without it. That is what you need to do. You can elevate specific software only with add on software to elevate that shortcut for example.
No one has admin rights, ever, except my department. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Freddy Grande Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Local Administrators on computers How does everyone handle users needing local administrator rights? We have some field users that require local admin, at the moment their domain accounts have local administrator rights on their computers, however, this can be dangerous if they run everything as admin. I've been wanting to create local admin accounts on computers that require it, set a unique password to these and deny local/interactive logon so they are only to be used for elevation. Ideally all of this should be controlled through GPO or similar method to prevent users changing passwords to something weak. I'm not finding an easy way to refer to local accounts in GPO though so I'm thinking scripting is going to be the only way to go... any thoughts or ideas? Bonus: how would you prevent a user from launching an elevated Computer Management console and adding their domain user accounts to the Administrators group? Freddy
