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Many thanks, &nbsp;subtly different to the way it works on 2008! &nbsp; I can also add users from the domain into the administrative group
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Many thanks,  subtly different to the way it works on 2008!   I can also add users from the domain into the administrative group

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I have just installed the essentials role on a VM. &nbsp;When you run the connect program from a workstation (<a href="http://" rel="ugc nofollow">http://</a>&lt;local domain&gt;/connect) you can set which users can use this workstation and it appears then gives them local admin rights on that workstation. &nbsp;I cannot work out (having spent a lot of time on google trying to find out) how you can subsequently add or remove those users.<br />
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The only way I can find to do it is to run connect again on the workstation and either change its name or remove the computer account from AD (through the essentials dashboard).<br />
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I cannot believe that there is not a simpler way of doing this and I must be missing something blatantly obvious. &nbsp;The only machine setup I can find in the users account in the dashboard is to say which computers the user can be remote controlled.
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I have just installed the essentials role on a VM.  When you run the connect program from a workstation (http://<local domain>/connect) you can set which users can use this workstation and it appears then gives them local admin rights on that workstation.  I cannot work out (having spent a lot of time on google trying to find out) how you can subsequently add or remove those users.

The only way I can find to do it is to run connect again on the workstation and either change its name or remove the computer account from AD (through the essentials dashboard).

I cannot believe that there is not a simpler way of doing this and I must be missing something blatantly obvious.  The only machine setup I can find in the users account in the dashboard is to say which computers the user can be remote controlled.

server 2012 essentials local administrator on workstation

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