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Albert T. Wong
Asked: 2013-02-09 18:56:54 +0800 CST

What type of permissions do you need to assign to a AD user to be local administrator on Windows 7

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What type of permissions and/or roles do you need to assign to a Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 R2) user to be local administrator on Windows 7?

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2 Answers

  1. You can do this across a domain in three different ways.

    1. Group Policy Preferences can be used to add domain users to local groups.

    2. Group Policy Restricted Groups.

    3. A startup script that runs net localgroup administrators /add userNameGoesHere

    None of these options require adding the user in question to a built-in Active Directory group.

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  2. This is a pretty common action for a computer by computer basis. There are tons of tutorials online about how to do this.

    In general you do the following:

    1. Edit the local groups (like the tutorial I linked to above describes)
    2. Open the control panel in Windows and open the Users tool to add a user to the administrators group (screenshot below)

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