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Install without domain Admin rights
Name: Glenn Date: September 28, 2005 at 02:12:41 Pacific OS: win 2000 CPU/Ram: p4
Comment:
I have a team of IT helpdesk techicians who need to install various software on client machines - I do not want to give them all domain admin rights - is there some way of elevating group rights to do this Any suggestions wil be helpfull
Name: ccfrank Date: September 28, 2005 at 07:19:33 Pacific
Reply:
The only way you can do this is to grant them administrtive priveledges.
best of luck Frank :
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: September 28, 2005 at 07:50:17 Pacific
Reply:
You have a few choices. Adding the users to Domain Admins is NOT one that you should consider.
You can create a new Group for these people and add that Group to each computer's Local Admin Group.
That's one option.
There are others as well...
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Response Number 3
Name: Techno_Man Date: September 28, 2005 at 23:04:10 Pacific
Reply:
U shud give the admin rights to the technicians so it can built trust with eachother...... bcz without admin rights u cannot install or uninstall anything from ur computer......
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