Hello,
I'm struggling with setting up a group policy with admin priviledges in XP. Let me explain my situation:
At work everyone is part of the company domain. Everyone had local admin rights to their PC until recently IT decided that was too dangerous, so they've started converting everyone to a user account. I got an email today that my computer is scheduled to be converted in 2 more weeks. Here's the crappy part though: Since we're all software developers, we constantly are developing and testing software on our PCs. One of our applications requires admin priviledges to run the first time, so after every compile, you have to call IT and have them come up and put in a password to allow you to try running the code you just compiled. It's the stupidest thing ever.
Anyways, one of my coworkers is friends with a guy in the IT department. He said that the IT guy told him that if before your admin rights are stripped you create a group with admin priveledges and put your login into the group, then when they run the de-admin script you won't be stripped of your admin rights because you're part of a group that has admin rights.
I've been trying to figure out how to do this today, but I can't seem to get it. I was able to create a group, but nowhere can I seem to set that group to have admin rights. I tried adding the group to the Administrator's group, but that didn't work. I tried running gpedit.msc and going in to the User Rights Assignment section under local policies, but the option to change those fields is greyed out as if perhaps there's a policy being pushed down from the domain that prevents us from changing our policies. (not sure if that's accurate or not. I know very little about policies and domains.)
Does anyone have any ideas how I would go about solving this? I don't want my productivity at work to go down by 2 orders of magnitude because of an IT decision.
I'm struggling with setting up a group policy with admin priviledges in XP. Let me explain my situation:
At work everyone is part of the company domain. Everyone had local admin rights to their PC until recently IT decided that was too dangerous, so they've started converting everyone to a user account. I got an email today that my computer is scheduled to be converted in 2 more weeks. Here's the crappy part though: Since we're all software developers, we constantly are developing and testing software on our PCs. One of our applications requires admin priviledges to run the first time, so after every compile, you have to call IT and have them come up and put in a password to allow you to try running the code you just compiled. It's the stupidest thing ever.
Anyways, one of my coworkers is friends with a guy in the IT department. He said that the IT guy told him that if before your admin rights are stripped you create a group with admin priveledges and put your login into the group, then when they run the de-admin script you won't be stripped of your admin rights because you're part of a group that has admin rights.
I've been trying to figure out how to do this today, but I can't seem to get it. I was able to create a group, but nowhere can I seem to set that group to have admin rights. I tried adding the group to the Administrator's group, but that didn't work. I tried running gpedit.msc and going in to the User Rights Assignment section under local policies, but the option to change those fields is greyed out as if perhaps there's a policy being pushed down from the domain that prevents us from changing our policies. (not sure if that's accurate or not. I know very little about policies and domains.)
Does anyone have any ideas how I would go about solving this? I don't want my productivity at work to go down by 2 orders of magnitude because of an IT decision.