Removing Local Admin Rights...

From: Jay Lopez (jlopez_si86_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/25/04

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    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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