Re: AD rights to install software on a machine

Thanks Joe,

I'm at home right now, but when in the office tomorrow I will give this a
good trial.

Thanks for you're time.


"jwd" <jwd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Andrew,

Use the "Member of" setting rather than "Members" setting. Specify your
custom group to be a 'member of' the builtin\administrators group rather
explicity defining all the 'members' of the builtin\administrators. This
will only include the group and not exclude existing members

Best Regards
Joe Dunn MCSE

"Andrew Story" wrote:

Hi Joe,

Can't use restricted groups I'm afriad as it wipes out the existing
contents
of all the local groups, and some users are local admins/power users due
to
some applications requiring these permissions.

Is there any other way via a GPO, any other security setting that can be
applied just to install software?


"jwd" <jwd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The account does not need rights in AD to install software instead they
need
rights on the workstations. You can use AD however to apply these
rights.

Create a group and put all the accounts that you wish to have
administrative
permissions on the workstations. Then use a Restricted Group policy
setting
in a GPO linked to the OU(s) that contain your Computer accounts to add
this
group to the local Administrators group of the workstations.

Best Regards
Joe Dunn

"Andrew Story" wrote:

Hi, do you know what rights a user account in AD needs to install
software
on a workstation?

I need to create an account that someone can logon as to install
software,
and would like to do this per OU when needed.

Thanks








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