Re: User accounts being deleted

From: Andy L (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:58:14 -0800

Hi Marina,

Thanks for coming back to me. We have an application that
doesn't run correctly unless the user has local admin
rights to their system. I forgot to mention that the
monitoring console for our anti-virus is unable to
view/control these systems across the network, although
they are updating correctly.

If someone had been messing with Group Policies, what
would I be looking for?

Kind regards.... Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>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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