Re: Power user group

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:49:05 +0100

David Poultney wrote:

> Hi All,
> I need to make members of a domain security group have power user rights on
> Windows XP Pro domain computers. The only way I can see to so this is to add
> the Domain group to the local power users group on every PC. As I have to do
> this on some 160 PC, anyone got any quicker solutions. The network is a
> Windows 2003 domain.
Hi

Two options for you:

A)
You could do it in a computer startup script (with a GPO) that runs
as part of the boot up process (before the user logs in). It runs
under the system context and has admin rights.

B)
Restricted Groups enforced with Group Policy is maybe an option:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=uM5aZa1YDHA.440%40tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl

and

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 

-- 
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
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