Re: W2K Pro Local Admins

From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
Date: 04/16/03


Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:11:26 +0200
From: "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com>


tr6boy wrote:

> "Managers" in my company are questioning the value of
> having Domain Admins group in the Local Administrators
> group of every Windows 2000 Pro machine (there are about
> 5000 client PCs).
>
> It's not enough for me to say it's like that by design,
> or that I may need that access to fix a problem. They are
> proposing that a special group be created of 2 or 3
> people that are local admins on every machine.

Hi

If you can't trust the people that are placed in the Domain Admins group, then
you have a greater problem (I assume that all users aren't put into that
group). Anyway, you should not have much more than 3 people in the Domain
Admins group anyway (especially if this is an AD domain).

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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