I'll chime in and agree that removing admin rights from regular
accounts is one of the best things you can do. The rest of the
computer world has been doing it for 50 years or so; it's high time
the Windows world joined in, too.
We started doing this when we started migrating from Win9X to
20
Thoroughly agree, and I'm finally convincing management to let us make
this happen - though our software engineers are not yet aware of it.
They'll probably end up on a firewalled subnet of their own, though,
and can do what they want with it, as I'll wash my hands of that.
But, I'm down to two gu
System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Local admins (was RE: MSINFO popping up)
Thoroughly agree, and I'm finally convincing management to let us make this
happen - though our software engineers are not yet aware of it.
They'll probably end up on a firewalled subnet of their own, though, and ca
Damn right. Knocking admin rights on the head was the first thing I
did arriving at this gig. We no longer have problems with corrupted
profiles, and our virus incidents have dropped dramatically. Using
mandatory profiles and harnessing the full power of Group Policy
Objects has also helped. Despit
ankin [kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Local admins (was RE: MSINFO popping up)
Damn right. Knocking admin rights on the head was the first thing I
did arriving at this gig. We no longer have problems with corrupted
profiles, and our virus
dnesday, September 02, 2009 4:29 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Local admins (was RE: MSINFO popping up)
>
> Damn right. Knocking admin rights on the head was the first thing I
> did arriving at this gig. We no longer have problems with corrupted
> profiles,
That makes sense. I can gradually get people used to not being local admins.
J Most of customer service is NOT a local admin (only power user at most.)
It's mainly just the admin people who are local administrators on their
machines.
John-AldrichTile-Tools
From: David Lum [mailto:david@
Even the admin people don't need admin rights. Runas does the trick...
2009/9/2 John Aldrich :
> That makes sense… I can gradually get people used to not being local admins.
> J Most of customer service is NOT a local admin (only power user at most.)
> It’s mainly just the admin people who are loc
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:52 AM, John
Aldrich wrote:
> Most of customer service is NOT a local admin (only power user at most.)
The difference between a "Power User" and an admin is negligible.
Either can destroy the system through accident or design. "Power
User" was a bad idea from day one. C
of restrictions that regular users have to work under as
> well.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 2 September 2009 6:17 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Local admin
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