Re: Giving Accounts Local Computer Admin Privledge

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Add the users to a group and add that group to the local administrators group of whatever machines you want the group you created to have admin rights to.

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Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
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Jeremy Dillinger wrote:
Is there a way I can give accounts in Active Directory Local Computer Admin Privledge without giving them domain admin privledge? How can I go about doing this? Thanks!

Jeremy 


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