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
>
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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