I am currently running Server 2003 for a small office of about 12 users for now (soon to be 30!). I have AD set up and the users all log onto the domain to work, of course. Well, they all have basic user rights, which are not many. Thus, they are blocked from running any .exe, other installs, or updates. Sometimes, these are obvioulsy necessary. My question is this: every time I have to complete any task on the users computers, I always have to log out and then log back on with my admin creds. I have folder redirection set up as well, so this process is like pulling teeth sometimes. Anyhow, is there a way to set up some sort of preference (Possibly a global policy) to where, instead of logging off and back on, I can simply get prompted for my admin creds and go from there? I have read about RunAs (very little) and other codes, such as MakeMeAdmin, which seems to accomplish what I want to do, but I am not sure if it works correctly with Server 2003 (Not to mention, it appears I have to install this on every computer, which is okay if that is the only way.) Can anyone help me? THanks in advance.

Make sure you have the Run As service to automatic and that it is started and then if you need to run an application on the users workstation you can right click and select run as command.

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