RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP

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Kevin Hegg

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Simonis [mailto:simonis@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: July 27, 2006 9:54 AM
To: Focus-MS
Subject: Impact of removing administrative rights in an
enterprise running XP

Hello all,
I wonder if anyone on the list who might work for a good
sized enterprise (10,000+ seats) has gone through the
excercise of removing administrative rights from the user community?

Aside from the effort to inventory all applications and
ensure that they work with restricted permissions, I forsee
that such an effort would likely require changes to the
entire support model. Instead of relying on users to install
their own software, it would need to be done for them. New
hardware would require intevention, etc.

If someone has completed this, was support a major new
burden, or was it not as difficult as it might be? If it
was, how much of a burden was it (+ desktop support
headcount? +helpdesk calls?)?

-Ds



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