Provide them with an admin account and show them how to use "run-as"...  I
also disable logon locally where I can get away with it so they don't
cheat...

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:

>  How do you bigger org’s handle IT staff (DBA’s and the like) not being
> local admins on their systems? Invariably they are used to throwing on
> whatever they want and in some ways this helps the Help desk so they’re not
> called to install stuff the user can install.****
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> As we move to Windows 7 my recommendation is to yank local admin perms at
> the same time (yes everyone is local admin on their XP systems currently),
> but I foresee pushback from Service Desk and IT folks…****
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