Re: User accounts being deleted

From: Marina Roos [SBS-MVP] (marina_at_roos.nodontwantspam.nl.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:29:42 +0100

Hi Andy,

Why would a user need local admin rights? That is only needed when
installing applications.
Things don't happen just by itself. If you are not the one who perhaps made
group policies for this, then there must be someone else with admin rights
doing that. 

-- 
Regards,
Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP
"Andy L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:0a5201c4c57a$539da9a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi all, hope you can help with this problem. We have a
> SBS2K sever with 40 client workstations attached. The
> clients are a mixture of win2k and XP. A few weeks back I
> noticed that users accounts on their workstations had been
> removed, meaning anything that required admin rights on
> their PC was denied to them. I reset these by logging onto
> each system as a local administrator and added the domain
> users and domain administrators account to each one, but
> over a period of a couple of days these accounts have been
> deleted with the exception of one windows XP machine. I
> have repeated this exercise several times, and each time
> the accounts disapeared, sometimes in minutes, somtimes
> taking a couple of days. It is not possible that someone
> is manualy removing these as I have witnessed this
> happening when no one else has access to the network.
>
> I have checked for viruses, spyware, and any unusual
> registry entries on server and clients. There is also
> nothing set in group policies.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated, this is driving me mad.
>
> Regards...... Andy
>

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