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Need to add an Active Directory group to all workstation Local Administrators group

Asked by: mark-wa

Hi,
I have a Windows 2000 domain with some Windows 2003 servers installed.  I have a mix of Windows XP and Windows 2000 workstations.  I need to somehow push out a particular Active Directory group into everyone's Local Administrators group on each pc.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Mark

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2007-11-08 at 11:24:12ID22948351
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Answers

 

by: bsharathPosted on 2007-11-08 at 11:35:39ID: 20244321

See if this helps...
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Q_22759098.html

If you are talking about adding a user to all machines Administrator group.Then here is the cake.

strOutputFile = "C:\Workstations.txt"
strUser = "enochj"

Const OPEN_FILE_FOR_READING = 1
Const OPEN_FILE_FOR_APPENDING = 8

' Set Objects

Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
Set objInputFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile(strOutputFile, _
  OPEN_FILE_FOR_READING)

inputData = Split(objInputFile.ReadAll, vbNewline)

For each strData In inputData

strComputer = strData

Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrators")
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://Development/" & strUser)
objGroup.Add(objUser.ADsPath)

Next


This vbs script takes the machine names from the txt file.Put in all machine names 1 per line.

 

by: kmotawehPosted on 2007-11-08 at 11:36:17ID: 20244331

domain security policy can do this and also the group policy can do it

 

by: mark-waPosted on 2007-11-08 at 14:23:01ID: 20245893

Thank you both for your comments.  kmotaweh, could you please elaborate?  I'm not sure where to go in either of those to do this.  Thanks!

Mark

 

by: chandru_solPosted on 2007-11-09 at 08:46:49ID: 20250846

Hi,

This link will help you.......... using Group policy and this would be the best solution for large companies

http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=65046

regards
Chandru

 

by: mark-waPosted on 2007-11-09 at 09:50:56ID: 20251403

Thanks chandru_sol!  That worked perfect!

I just added the line "net localgroup administrators pai\LocalAdmin /add" to the login script and tested it and it worked great!  Group Policy really wasn't going to work for me because it overwrites the local settings on the computer.  And we have different permission settings on almost every computer.  Thanks for all of your help everyone!

Mark

 

by: chandru_solPosted on 2007-11-09 at 09:54:36ID: 20251440

Yes it depends on the situation.

Great!

regards
Chandru

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