Re: Adding Auth Users to Admin Group through GPO???

From: Scott (mcdonsco@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/07/03


From: "Scott" <mcdonsco@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:52:21 -0800


Nevermind folks, just found it and got it working...In the GPO of the OU you
want to do this on, just go to computer settings | Windows Settings |
Security Settings | Restricted Groups add group call administrators then add
authenticated users to that...works like a charm...

"Scott" <mcdonsco@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:O$D$FTE5CHA.2424@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Our company has a custom app and database that everyone in the company
uses,
> unfortunately this app requires the user to be an Administrator on their
> local machine. I want to add "Authenticated Users" (the domain
Authenticated
> Users) to the Administrator group locally on every workstation through
GPO.
> Currently if they switch to another system I have to add them as an admin
on
> that machine, I want to eliminate this step.
>
> Preferably I want to do this through GPO , but doing it through RIS would
be
> good too...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
>



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