SMS Administrator Accounts

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Our company merged with another. We had SMS they didn't. My Domain's SMS
account does not have privs on the new domain and I cannot add my SMS Admin
acount to the new domain. Neither can I add the new Domain - Domain Admins
account to our old domain. All computers are on separate domains (some in
our location are on the new company's domain).

What account can I use to deploy packages to all servers in all domains?
The only way I've been told how I can have administrator privs on all
computers is to put my ID in the local administrators group on all of the
computers either manually or with a script.

Is this the only way for me to successfully deploy packages to all
computers? I know soon I will be called upon to build site servers at the
other locations, push out clients to all computers and will also have to
deploy security patches to all servers in all locations eventually.

I encountered this the other day when I was deploying the security patches.
My package failed on a couple of local servers that happen to be in the new
company's domain. My

Mike Day - SMS Administrator
mike.day@xxxxxxxxxx
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