Re: Local Admin Rights - Microsoft

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Leythos wrote:
In article <6833992D-F0CA-4619-8937-45FE45F1F13C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, billv_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Steve,

Good Point. Really what I was thinking of is an easier way to handle these non-compliant programs. They may not go away overnight so to allow specific rights per program and not per user would help us out. Although this would also take the responsibility away from the bad developers out there too. Hmm, catch 22.


I run into this a lot, where the applications are poorly written and require the user to either be an administrator to install them, or at least a power user to run them.

As an example, I have a client that uses medical software. The application will run in User mode, but, the users can't install any of the updates unless they are administrators. As the vendor pushes out new updates (which are DLL files) a couple times a week, it means that the administrator must install and manually regsvr32 the DLL's on each computer. Now, I've gone to creating a batch file to push the DLL's out to the workstations, but there is no simple way to automate the registration of the DLL's on each computer - you can't do it in their login script as it runs as a User level permission and regsvr32 is not permitted by users..... So, to make life easy I have a batch file that's run on logon (it's normally empty) and populate it with the reg commands for each dll, then logon as Administrator, log out, and then when all machines have been done I delete the contents of the batch file so that users don't experience the errors.

On another note, what about the lame vendors that write updates and ship them, have an admin install the update, but, wait, the update is only loaded when you run the installer, you have to actually open the application to complete the installation - and you have to still be an administrator.

Kind of like using Quicken/Quickbooks - you have to be an admin to run it. 

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