Automatic admin, remote profiles

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Sam Weber

Greetings,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put it (a bit
of newbie questions), but I need to know how to make it
so the users I add are automatically administrators on
the computers they login to (could be multiple
computers). Currently, I have to manually go into the
computer and add the user name in User Accounts and
change the permissions so it can install and access
certain things.

About the remote profiles, is there anyway to copy the
exact profile, including where the icons are located, the
custom wallpaper, documents, PST mail file, etc.? When I
attempted to do this, it copied the desktop items, but it
screwed up how they were positioned. It would just be
easier if anyone could login onto any computer and have
it exactly like it was on their main computer.

I'm assuming you can do all of this in Active Directory?

Thanks in advance,
Sam
 
Sam,

I am not sure that you really want to do this. I will leave it at that as
you know your environment better than anyone.

You could consider using GPO to do this. There is a specific GPO called
"Restricted Groups" that will allow you to do this. You need to be careful
with it, though, as it kicks out everyone who is 'currently' a member of the
local Administrators group and replaces that with the security group that
you designate. So, if the Domain Admins group is a member of each and every
WIN2000 / WIN XP local Administrators group and you apply this GPO once the
GPO takes then the Domain Admins groups is kicked out and the security group
that you designated is the only member of the local Administrators group.
There is a fix to this, however. If you apply the fix before applying the
GPO then the group that you indicated is simply added as a member of the
local Administrators group, thereby retaining the current members....

Please take a look at the following MSKB links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320065
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=810076

HTH,

Cary
 
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