Re: Removing Local Admin Rights...

["Murad Talukdar" <talukdar_m () subway com>]

I'm pushing to get this on our network too--one question though is that as
we were originally setup as a workgroup (and this is changing to being part
of ad domain when we upgrade to 2003)--how do I keep users profiles and
'migrate' them so that they keep the desktop settings that they have?
I want to be able to add them to the domain and remove admin rights all at
the same time but I know how much whinging there will be if people lose
their settings etc or have to recreate.
Any hints would be great.
Murad Talukdar


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Lopez" <jlopez_si86 () hotmail com>
To: <security-basics () lists securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:48 PM
Subject: Removing Local Admin Rights...


I currently work for an organization with approximately 25,000 Windows
XP/2000 desktops in an Active Directory (AD) environment.  Security from an
OS and individual application component (i.e., Outlook 2003, MS Office, IE,
etc.) perspective is being managed via group policy objects (GPO's).

Currently, we are pushing to remove local administrator access rights to
individual machines to prevent users from randomly installing unapproved
applications, prevent malware from being silently installed within the local
administrator context, etc.  Prior to our move to AD and GPO's, we received
push-back on removing local admin rights for reasons such as the logon
scripts would not work, etc.

By chance, have any of you implemented any of the above--especially the
removal of local administrator rights?  If so, what support issues did you
experience?  What impact did removing local admin rights have?

I'd like to provide as many pros and cons back to our team based on your
feedback.

Thanks in advance,

Jay Lopez

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