OK...how have some of you used a logon script (either home-made batch file or KixTart) to deploy an update or software so that it runs with Administrative rights?!?!?
I've just come to an intellectual impass on this and I NEED more NT brains to see what I'm missing here. I have a completely NT network. I need to do things as simple as copying a new "hosts" file to each workstation (local users don't have ability to save or overwrite files in \winnt\system32\) or to deploy updates and service packs (local users are also not allowed to run setup programs like updates and service packs). There are too many workstations to try to touch every one. We don't have a budget or support for purchasing any 3rd party products, but why should I have to buy anything else? There has to be a "poor admin's" built in "Microsoft" way to gain administrative rights on your users machines that doesn't involve a highly skilled VB programmer or Microsoft's SMS, RIGHT?!?!?
What do I have to do? If you have or know of a solution that involves VB code, at least that is something I can learn, so throw it my way...it's better than nothing.
I'd prefer the use of a logon script to at least send a new hosts file or maybe run an MDAC update, and the logon script is of course running on a domain controller under the domain admin account which has all the permissions necessary...how can I do this?
S-A-V-E me!
I've just come to an intellectual impass on this and I NEED more NT brains to see what I'm missing here. I have a completely NT network. I need to do things as simple as copying a new "hosts" file to each workstation (local users don't have ability to save or overwrite files in \winnt\system32\) or to deploy updates and service packs (local users are also not allowed to run setup programs like updates and service packs). There are too many workstations to try to touch every one. We don't have a budget or support for purchasing any 3rd party products, but why should I have to buy anything else? There has to be a "poor admin's" built in "Microsoft" way to gain administrative rights on your users machines that doesn't involve a highly skilled VB programmer or Microsoft's SMS, RIGHT?!?!?
What do I have to do? If you have or know of a solution that involves VB code, at least that is something I can learn, so throw it my way...it's better than nothing.
I'd prefer the use of a logon script to at least send a new hosts file or maybe run an MDAC update, and the logon script is of course running on a domain controller under the domain admin account which has all the permissions necessary...how can I do this?
S-A-V-E me!