Re: blocking games

From: James Reather (james_at_reather.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:27:20 +0100

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:ecPY$ogCFHA.3436@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> If you uninstall the games from the workstation using control panel/add
> and remove, the users will not be able to reinstall them - users and power
> users can not add or remove Windows components.

Isn't the default config in SBS for end users to be local administrators? I
thought MS's line on this was that removing the local administrator rights
left you in "an unsupported configuration".... ?

<grrrrr>

James

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