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Pretty sure it's local admin. &nbsp;I'll see if I can find some documentation.
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Pretty sure it's local admin.  I'll see if I can find some documentation.

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Actually even Power Users looks like it might be enough.
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Actually even Power Users looks like it might be enough.

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Unfortunately, me to. I think you can be power user and remote desktop user, but that wont help me because I am trying to prevent users from needing to log into the server to start and stop services.
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Unfortunately, me to. I think you can be power user and remote desktop user, but that wont help me because I am trying to prevent users from needing to log into the server to start and stop services.

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I think it is power user and another security permission.<br />

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I think it is power user and another security permission.


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This may help you in your testing then. &nbsp;Run secpol.msc and go to Local Policies, User Rights Assignment. &nbsp;At least you can have a look through here at the rights available and you's got them.
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This may help you in your testing then.  Run secpol.msc and go to Local Policies, User Rights Assignment.  At least you can have a look through here at the rights available and you's got them.

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Doing that, but there is nothing there that clearly defines this.
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Doing that, but there is nothing there that clearly defines this.

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There isn't an option. Did you look the link I posted?
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There isn't an option. Did you look the link I posted?

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What permissions are required to connect to the computer management console of another server?
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What permissions are required to connect to the computer management console of another server?

Connect To the Computer Management Console Remotely

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.