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GPO for Local Admin?

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zeveck

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Jun 6, 2005
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Can I use GPO to ensure that AD users have administrator rights on workstations without making them Domain Admins? Can I somehow make them local admins?

~RMC
 
On a relative same note...I know you can rename the local administrator account for all workstations in Group Policy...can you also set a password for the local admin account in a GPO?
 
Yes you can. Both actually.

First one (zeveck's issue):

* Create a domain group, say "Techie" and put people in there
* Create a COMPUTER startup script with the following line:

net localgroup Administrators "<domain\Techie" /ADD



Davyd123's issue:

Create a COMPUTER startup script with this line to change the Administrator password on the local machine:

net user administrator <password_goes_here>

 
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