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Did you perform in-place upgrade?<br />
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What do you mean by the statement below?<br />
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<u>Very strange, removed and re-added to the domain and no one had administrative rights to any machine. &nbsp;Tried the Domain Administrator account.</u><br />
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Are you referring to the workstation here?
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Did you perform in-place upgrade?

What do you mean by the statement below?

Very strange, removed and re-added to the domain and no one had administrative rights to any machine.  Tried the Domain Administrator account.

Are you referring to the workstation here?

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IN place upgrade.<br />
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I've removed Computers from the domain, re-added to the domain. &nbsp;Users who are domain administrators\admins, or added to the local administrators group do not have administrative rights.<br />
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Even logging into the computer as the domain\administrator, the administrator does not have rights.
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IN place upgrade.

I've removed Computers from the domain, re-added to the domain.  Users who are domain administrators\admins, or added to the local administrators group do not have administrative rights.

Even logging into the computer as the domain\administrator, the administrator does not have rights.

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After renaming a 2008 [upgraded from 2003] domain. &nbsp;Domain Administrators do not have rights to workstations.<br />
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Very strange, removed and re-added to the domain and no one had administrative rights to any machine. &nbsp;Tried the Domain Administrator account.
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After renaming a 2008 [upgraded from 2003] domain.  Domain Administrators do not have rights to workstations.

Very strange, removed and re-added to the domain and no one had administrative rights to any machine.  Tried the Domain Administrator account.

Local Permissions \ Rights issues after Domain Rename

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