RE: Local user policy



Brandy,

Thanks for your answer, this is exactly what i was looking for.

Best regards,

Dennis Bot


""Brandy Nee [MSFT]"" wrote:

> Hello DBot,
>
> Thank you for posting to the SBS Newsgroup.
>
> From your description, I understand that you want to add a user group to
> local administrators group on client computers. If I have misunderstood
> your concern, please let me know.
>
> Please see my following information:
>
> 1> You mentioned "be member of the "super user" group", I need to know is
> it server side or client workstation side "super user" group?
>
> 2> To add domain users to local groups, there are several methods:
>
> ============
> Method One:
>
> You can do it by a simple script as following:
>
> Net localgroup administrators [domain name]\domain users /add
>
> Save the file as a .bat file, then open Domain Group Policy, open Computer
> configuration\windows settings\scripts\startup, locate the bat file.
>
> When client computer starts up, the command will be executed by system
> account to add the domain users group to local administrators group.
>
> =============
> Method Two:
>
> You can use Restricted Groups policy on Domain policy to add users to
> workstations' local group. To do so:
>
> 1. Start Active Directory Users and Computers from SBS 2K3 server.
>
> 2. Create an organizational unit, and then move all of the appropriate
> workstations to that organizational unit.
>
> 3. Create a global group in that organizational unit, and then add the
> appropriate users to that group.
>
> 4. Create a new GPO and link this GPO to the new OU.
>
> 5. Right click the new GPO and select Edit.
>
> 6. You are in the Group Policy Object Editor.
>
> 7. Right-click Restricted Groups (under Computer Configuration\Windows
> Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Groups), and then click Add Group.
>
> 8. Type administrators and then click OK.
>
> 9. In the Members of this Group box, click ADD, and then click Browse.
>
> 11. Locate the group in the organizational unit that you want to place in
> the administrators group, and then add it the group. After you do so, close
> the group policy.
>
> 12. At a command prompt, type "secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy
> /enforce" (without the quotation marks), and then press ENTER.
>
> NOTE: This method will remove the users/groups which are individually added
> to local administrators group from workstation. If you want to append the
> original users/groups, in step 9, please click Add next to This group us a
> member of.
>
> For more information, please refer to:
>
> 320065 How to Configure a Global Group to Be a Member of the Administrators
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320065
>
> Hope this information helps. If anything is unclear, please let me know. I
> am looking forward to hearing from you!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brandy Nee
>
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> >I'm looking for an easy and fast way to change the local account settings
> of
> >client computer from users. What i want is to change the local account
> policy
> >so that a user was first a member of the "user" group but with next logon
> >he/she will be member of the "super user" group. And that for the entire
> >domain or for single group? is this possible?
> >
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