AD permissions to allow user to install programs

[isaacgrover]

Good afternoon from Wisconsin,

I administer an Active Directory network running on Windows Server 2003 with fourteen clients running Windows XP. Two of the users need to update a client-side application every few weeks with a patch provided by the vendor. As they are set up as standard users they don't have permission to install the application patch without calling me to log in to the machine as local admin, install it, then verify it on the machine using their AD account. How can I allow them the ability to install these patches on their own?


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Isaac Grover, Owner
Quality Computer Services of River Falls, Wisconsin
Web:

http://www.qcs-rf.com

 

[terry712]

do you want them to have admin rights on the pc?

or only allow them rights to install the software

 

[isaacgrover]

They only need rights to install the software.


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Isaac Grover, Owner
Quality Computer Services of River Falls, Wisconsin
Web:

http://www.qcs-rf.com

 

[terry712]

each bit odf software is different

if it's a msi then you can deploy with a gpo

else you need to know what directories and reg keys the software touches and then you can deploy rights to these by a gpo and then allow the users to install the software