Group Policy and Local Admin rights

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I have a group policy to prohibit user installs of applications however I
have several users who are domain members ( and they log into the domain) but
have LOCAL admin rights for a very "picky" application. I would like to
still prohibit userinstalls but keep the local admin rights.

Is this normal behavior for the local rights to take precedance over GP?

thank you
jason
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