Cool thanks! I was simply questioning my own practices - nobody has asked me, I am just confirming what I am doing actually makes sense.
Dave From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AV deployment on servers, what type of account do you use? That's what we do. I'm curious as to why this is being questioned and what you do to make it more secure, but still function properly. :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 don.gu...@prufoxroach.com<mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com> From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: AV deployment on servers, what type of account do you use? What type of domain account do you guys use for central AV management? By default I have a service account that I GPO to make local admin on each server...I used to just have that account a domain admin until I discovered the restricted groups thing, but I'm wondering if I could make it more secure than "local admin via GPO..." David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin