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Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 01:53PM
Drew Simonis (simonis myself com) (4 replies)
RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Aug 15 2006 10:14PM
Kevin Hegg (kevinhegg moturion com)
Take a look at LUA Buglight.
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2006/08/07/LuaBuglight.aspx

Kevin Hegg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Simonis [mailto:simonis (at) myself (dot) com [email concealed]]
> Sent: July 27, 2006 9:54 AM
> To: Focus-MS
> Subject: Impact of removing administrative rights in an
> enterprise running XP
>
> Hello all,
> I wonder if anyone on the list who might work for a good
> sized enterprise (10,000+ seats) has gone through the
> excercise of removing administrative rights from the user community?
>
> Aside from the effort to inventory all applications and
> ensure that they work with restricted permissions, I forsee
> that such an effort would likely require changes to the
> entire support model. Instead of relying on users to install
> their own software, it would need to be done for them. New
> hardware would require intevention, etc.
>
> If someone has completed this, was support a major new
> burden, or was it not as difficult as it might be? If it
> was, how much of a burden was it (+ desktop support
> headcount? +helpdesk calls?)?
>
> -Ds
>

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RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 04:36PM
Howe, Paul H (paul howe nwa com)
Re: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 03:14PM
Saqib Ali (docbook xml gmail com)
Re: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 03:08PM
Jon R. Kibler (Jon Kibler aset com) (4 replies)
Re: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 28 2006 12:53AM
Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (bugtraq planetcobalt net)
RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 08:49PM
McLaurin, Timothy (tMcLaurin citi-us com) (2 replies)
RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 28 2006 03:39AM
Tom Milliner (tomm dfwrealtors com) (1 replies)
RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 28 2006 01:48PM
Miha Pihler (Miha Pihler snt si)
RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 09:44PM
Robert D. Holtz (robert d holtz gmail com) (1 replies)
Re: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 28 2006 03:23PM
Thor (Hammer of God) (thor hammerofgod com)
Re: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 06:36PM
Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa pacbell net)
RE: Impact of removing administrative rights in an enterprise running XP Jul 27 2006 06:30PM
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