Re: group policy question

From: jake (rondican_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:17:45 -0800

Damian,

    Thanks for the info

Jake

"Damian N Leibaschoff [MSFT]" <damianl@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Hi,
> You need to make sure they are local administrators on the affected
> workstations in order to be able to install software, this would be beyond
> any policy configuration and would be the first thing to check.
>
> Log on to the workstation as a domain admin (they are local admins by
> default), open the Computer Management (Right Click My Computer, Manage),
go
> to Local Users and Groups, Groups, and open the Administrators group. Add
> the domain group or user you want to give local administrative rights
here,
> use the format DOMAIN\User or DOMAIN\Group.
> Ok all the changes, log off and re-test.
>
> Regards,
> Damian
>
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> "jake" <rondican@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Damian,
> >
> > I am trying to make sure power users can install software on
computers
> > within the domain. Right now they cannot. Our old network admin copied
> over
> > group policies from our old DC and before using SBS2003 we had all the
it
> > staff as domain admins. Now since we have WSS we cannot have the IT be
> > domain admins since there are subsites we do not want them to access,
but
> > the IT staff need to be able to install and maintain user computers. So
do
> > you know where I would look in the group policies to allow power users
to
> > install software?
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > "Damian N Leibaschoff [MSFT]" <damianl@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
> > message news:e2z7oPUBEHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Are you trying to work with the software that SBS tries to install on
> the
> > > clients or you want to use your own policies?
> > >
> > > SBS uses logon scripts to get the software installation going.
> > >
> > > If you are looking for information on how to do the policies to push
out
> > > software, check the following:
> > >
> > > 324750 HOW TO: Assign Software to a Specific Group By Using a Group
> Policy
> > > in
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324750
> > >
> > > 816102 HOW TO: Use Group Policy to Remotely Install Software in
Windows
> > > Server
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816102
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Damian
> > >
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> > > "jake" <rondican@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:uoTRS0TBEHA.212@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > We can I enable/disable adding software in a group policy?
> > > >
> > > > Jake
> > > >
> > > >
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