How can I add admin access to local workstations all at once

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Eric Ritter

We have 20 PC's that need all users that login to have
local administrative access to their PC's.
If they don't have administrative access, certain plugins
in IE will not run properly.
I thought I could do that by adding the PC's in AD to the
domain computers folder (if they aren't already in there)
then giving that group administrative rights on each
workstation. It didn't work.
Any ideas? I'd hate to have to go to each PC each time I
add a new user.

Thanks in advance.

Eric
 
It is generally not a good idea to give users administrative powers on their
computers. If possible investigate why you are having a problem with those
plug ins and any possible work arounds including changing ntfs or registry
permissions. If that is not an option, try first to give them power users
access. Instead of adding each user to the local administrators/power users
group on a domain member computer you could add the domain users group to
those local groups to make administration easier. However keep in mind that
will allow a user to log onto any of the twenty machines and have
administrator access to the machine unless you restrict the machines they
can logon to in their account properties. It's your call on the balance of
security versus convenience. --- Steve
 
Thanks very much for the explaination. I appreciate it and
am taking your advice very seriously.
If I were to try to troubleshoot what's causing these
plugins to fail, where would I begin. Any resources I
could be pointed to?
Thanks again for the replies.

Eric
 
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