Mark,
There are several methods of granting rights to start/stop services for
non-admin users.
KB article 288129:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=288129 discusses these.
The 3 main methods are a domain based GPO, a security template or using
subinacl.exe. Hope that this helps.
blim
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| >Does anyone know offhand how I can give a non-admin user
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