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GPO useing Power Users

I want to create a GPO that will allow me to give members of a Security Group Power User permissions, any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

Cliff Galiher

Power Users have long been deprecated and with XP well outside of even extended support, there is no good way to do this in Server 2012.

noad

ASKER

Ahhhhh.

Ok here is why I need to do this, maybe you can suggest a work around.

we are setting up 12 workstations to do programing, the users will have to now and then download software to do diff configs.
I went into my Win8 Pro PC and was able to manually add the power user, but I want to do ti via GPO.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

John

I went into my Win8 Pro PC and was able to manually add the power user,

It is there in Windows 8 and also Windows 7 but it does not do anything or add permissions.

Standard users are just standard users and with UAC ON (as it should be) users have no authority to add software. It cannot be done natively in Windows.

If you really need to do this, you would need to use the Beyond Trust product which is an extension of granular permissions done in a GPO-like manner.

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noad

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John,

Thanks for your reply,

Just to be clear I message you to ask you a direct question, not to use it to solve problem.

John

@noad - Thank you and I was happy to help.