How to globally change machine local admins

From: Max (max@spamjam.com)
Date: 11/04/02 

From: "Max" <max@spamjam.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 09:00:25 -0800

For security reasons, we want to remove users from the local admin group on
workstations throughout our domain. Is there a utility available which can
change the machine local admins to a specified group, and remove those not
in this group?

Thanks all.

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