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so when they're not a member of this group I hear that users can run only about 80% of .exe's. &nbsp;That's wierd. &nbsp;I'll add them and see what happens. &nbsp;Thanks.
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so when they're not a member of this group I hear that users can run only about 80% of .exe's.  That's wierd.  I'll add them and see what happens.  Thanks.

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I'm running a 2003 SBS running Active Directory. &nbsp;My clients have notebooks and authenticate to the domain via the DControllers in my network. &nbsp;When logged into the domain they are unable and/or locally on their notebooks, they are unable to run some .exe files and get an error. &nbsp;For example, one of my guys got a virus and I put the .exe removal tool on a shared drive, when my user went to run it he got an error saying he needs an Administrator to run it. &nbsp;I don't want that, i'm thinking I screwed up somewhere in my AD Users &amp;&nbsp;Computers. &nbsp;What builtin group do they need to be members of? &nbsp;They are already local Administrators of their notebooks however I think the DC Policy's over-ride it???
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I'm running a 2003 SBS running Active Directory.  My clients have notebooks and authenticate to the domain via the DControllers in my network.  When logged into the domain they are unable and/or locally on their notebooks, they are unable to run some .exe files and get an error.  For example, one of my guys got a virus and I put the .exe removal tool on a shared drive, when my user went to run it he got an error saying he needs an Administrator to run it.  I don't want that, i'm thinking I screwed up somewhere in my AD Users & Computers.  What builtin group do they need to be members of?  They are already local Administrators of their notebooks however I think the DC Policy's over-ride it???

User cannot run .exe programs while logged into the domain... why not?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).