Re: Removing Local Admin Rights...

[Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net>]

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KEN MORRIS wrote:
| Jay,
| First thing I would do would be to check to see if there is any non-M$
| programs installed that are needed in the organization. IF there are,
| thoroughly test those programs under both O/S before removing local admin
| rights.
| Some software will run only under local admin user accounts. I have tried
| here and found that in certain programs there is no work around other than
| local admin to allow users to run the software. Even setting them as power
| users does not work.
| Regards,
| Ken

Ken,
Generally the local admin rights requirements on machines with 3rd party
software is fixable by just changing permissions on files and
keys/values in the registry, I can't think of a single instance where
this wouldn't work and I've yet to find a program I couldn't setup for
an ordinary user to run.

I find the best thing to do is run filemon and regmon on the suspect
program and check what its accessing and then give the user permission
to these keys (don't give write where only read is needed though). Quite
often you will find that the software vendors are willing to give you
the info on these keys and values themselves to save you the trouble of
researching it.

If you need more help on this let me know.


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Barrie Dempster

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