Re: Local admin group

From: Todd J Heron (todd_heron_no_spam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:55:00 -0500

Use the Restricted Groups Group Policy feature.

How to Configure a Global Group to Be a Member of the Administrators Group
on all Workstations:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320065

More on the use of Restricted Groups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=uM5aZa1YDHA.440%40tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl

Alternative solutions:
For a VBScript solution:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=add%20administrators%20winnt%20group%20GetObject&as_uauthors=torgeir%20&as_scoring=d&lr=&hl=en

For a CMD-line script solution:
net.exe localgroup administrators "YourDomainName\LocalAdministrators" /add 

-- 
Todd J Heron, MCSE
Windows Server 2003/2000/NT

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